- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day Quotes
Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.
These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day I'm a basketball player. I'm going to try and shoot more threes than mid-range or long twos or whatever. But if someone gives you a shot, you're a basketball player, you got to make reads and play.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way back in the day, I used to cook for Thomas Keller at Rakel in New York City. Keller is a down to earth, kind, supportive person. I wish people could see that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any decision that I make, anything that I do, every single consideration of my day goes through the prism of what my former experience has been.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.
- Barrels
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who sadly stay in on a Saturday - and I include myself in there - look forward to 'Match of the Day.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
- Bailing
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- Nov 07, 2020