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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.
Joyce Giraud
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
Wayne Dyer
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My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
Heber J. Grant
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I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.
Kurt Eichenwald
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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.


Kim Stanley Robinson
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I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.
Gina Bellman
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.


Jack Nicklaus
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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
Antony Gormley
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Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.


Evel Knievel
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If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.


Peter Finch
I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.
Sharlto Copley
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In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
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Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five.


Will Harvey
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The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.


Andy Taylor
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When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.
Lou Dobbs
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The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
Shigeru Yoshida
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
Tom Wolfe
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Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.
Retief Goosen
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
Bartlett Sher
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