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Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
Bill Hicks
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
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I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.


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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.


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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
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I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.


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We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.
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If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.
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I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.
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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
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I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.


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When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.


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I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
Ivana Trump
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