"The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have."

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“Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.”

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”

“When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.”

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”

“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.”

“And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.”

Resonant Thoughts

"With the passage of time, I guess my priorities have changed and so have the parameters on the basis of which I decide to do a film. Today I look for a lot more mature roles, with a lot of substance. …"

— Nastassja Kinski

Entertainment1961

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"I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is…"

— Mike Tomlin

Sports1972

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"The last 18 years has been spent standing and trying to catch up on things, and as we were getting out of that we had another coup in 2000 so we were thrown back again several. That is how I see this …"

— Mahendra Chaudhry

Politics1942

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"It's bullshit, what the hell do they want me to do? The sport is going down. It's not even worth competing, because you do all the work for a year and you don't get what you deserve."

— Iris Kyle

1974

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