Events Quotes - Page 22

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Andy Murray

World, Olympics, Sporting Events

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Tree, Stones, Plant

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Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

Gary McCord

Struggle, Years, Magic

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The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

Michael K. Williams

Real, Wire, Realistic

"Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick

Men, Numbers, People

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

John Hodgman

Stars, Believe, Character

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

Felix Baumgartner

Records Breaking, Sound, Ends

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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

James Henry Breasted

Two, Recognition, Century

James Henry Breasted (1933). “The Oriental Institute”

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Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

Kohei Uchimura

Years, Giving, Advice

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THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

Neville Goddard

Believe, Self, Desire

Neville Goddard (2016). “The Neville Goddard Collection”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

W. H. Auden

Art, Creativity, Desire

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Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

Louis L'Amour

Gun, Men, Practice

Louis L'Amour (2003). “Sackett”, p.40, Bantam

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Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

Thomas Lickona

Character, Challenges, Vices

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Stress comes from trying to achieve, trying to do something, trying to keep up with the events of the world, the speed of the world, and trying to accomplish, to produce results.

Drunvalo Melchizedek

Stress, Trying, World

Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

Pema Chodron

Inner Peace, Peace Of Mind, Emotion

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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Lisa Ling

World, Levels, Consciousness

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To be honest with you, I literally don't even know how to style my hair unless I'm doing an event because I rely on hair stylists.

Nina Dobrev

Hair, Style, Stylist

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If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

Mark Cuban

Mom, Running, Brother

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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

James Dwight Dana

Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

Vladimir Semichastny

Russia, Kgb, Troops

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Modern Journalism, Giving

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, University of Chicago Press

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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

Marguerite Duras

Judging, Looks, World

Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control.

Thom Hartmann

Believe, Differences, Mind

"книги▼ Моя библиотека Моя история Книги в Google Play Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision". Book by Thom Hartmann, 2009.

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To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Horizon, Burning

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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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