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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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The players make the manager, it's never the other way.


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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.


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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.


Gavin DeGraw
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Other than things like toothpaste, I don't buy anything that isn't sold to me.


Stanley Marcus
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It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.


Gerry Adams
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The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
Tre Cool
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
Reggie Jackson
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I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
Tony La Russa
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When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Johnny Depp
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No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
Pete Rose
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To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.


Steve Prefontaine
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I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.
Geoff Stults
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.


Aeschylus
Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.
Lenny Wilkens
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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller
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