Barney Ross Quotes

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Barney Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1909 - January 17, 1967

Topics

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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

Joe Lonsdale

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The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Buchanan Robinson

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There are a few roles I want to play, but mostly I just want to keep doing a play every now and then, watch kids grow and eat cookies and drink tea.

Robert Sean Leonard

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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

Steven Moffat

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The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

Rutger Hauer

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Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.

Mike Pompeo

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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Mika Waltari

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I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

Michelle Rodriguez

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I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.

Jose Angel Gurria

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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Clifford Geertz

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