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Mental toughness is not just enduring the storm but learning to dance with the rain.
Author:
Samantha Rayner
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Cultivating mental toughness means training not just for the storm-but also for the nights without stars, when resilience burns brightest.
Author:
Avery Flint
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Our limits are forged through discomfort; resilience quietly carves pathways where fear dares to tread.
Author:
Jordan Solis
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Amidst the whirlwind of accomplishments and demand, peace blooms quietly within, reminding us that success essentially nurtures both promise and stillness.
Author:
Ava Flint
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Tech unwire as you observe: under the surface, connection becomes synergy; not distraction. Light intentionally where your attention falls yet convute consuming metaphysics beneath fingers joyful tangent.
Author:
Ava Reid
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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
Author:
Billy Zane
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There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel.
Author:
Isaac Yeffet
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Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
Author:
Kristi Yamaguchi
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I've had a lot more fun with the training.
Author:
Kristi Yamaguchi
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All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.
Author:
Alicia Witt
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These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
Author:
Esther Williams
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The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
Author:
Arsene Wenger
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
Author:
Ida Wells
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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Author:
Thomas Watson, Sr.
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I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
Author:
Rodger Ward
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Author:
Mary Ward
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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Author:
Herschel Walker
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Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.
Author:
Greg Walden
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My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Author:
Mao Tung
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A key factor is to do training that is fun.
Author:
Bill Toomey
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.
Author:
Kiana Tom
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
Author:
Noah Taylor
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But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
Author:
Elvis Stojko
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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
Author:
George Stigler
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If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.
Author:
Saul Steinberg
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The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
Author:
Jason Statham
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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
Author:
Harry Stanton
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I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
Author:
Jo Stafford
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What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Author:
Jimmy Smits
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
Author:
Kate Smith
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We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
Author:
Bubba Smith
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There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
Author:
Don Sherwood
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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Author:
Alan Shepard
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Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
Author:
Bud Selig
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I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
Author:
David Selby
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I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
Author:
Peter Scott
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I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.
Author:
Jill Scott
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I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
Author:
Ashley Scott
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Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs.
Author:
Lou Schultz
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
Author:
Otto Schily
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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
Author:
Curt Schilling
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Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
Author:
Graeme Saux
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Author:
Harrison Salisbury
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I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
Author:
Alberto Salazar
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Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
Author:
Alberto Salazar
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I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.
Author:
Robert Ryan
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While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
Author:
George Ryan
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Author:
Bill Rodgers
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
Author:
Pat Roberts
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I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.
Author:
Michael Ritchie
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Author:
Sally Ride
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
Author:
Anne Rice
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We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.
Author:
Ryan Reynolds
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I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
Author:
Claudio Reyna
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They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
Author:
Jeremy Renner
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Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
Author:
Publius Renatus
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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Author:
Publius Renatus
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I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
Author:
Martha Reeves
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Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Author:
Keanu Reeves
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I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
Author:
Pee Reese
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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.
Author:
Bernice Reagon
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Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
Author:
Johannes Rau
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Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
Author:
Sellapan Ramanathan
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'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
Author:
Willard Quine
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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
Author:
Joseph Pulitzer
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After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Author:
Plato
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Author:
Plato
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Author:
Abbe Pierre
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Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
Author:
Alessandro Piero
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In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools.
Author:
David Petraeus
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It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Author:
Martin Perl
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Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
Author:
Jason Patric
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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.
Author:
Evan Parker
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I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Author:
Satchel Paige
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
Author:
Major Owens
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Author:
Jesse Owens
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In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
Author:
John Olver
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Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.
Author:
Gary North
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Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.
Author:
Ruud Nistelrooy
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
Author:
Bebe Neuwirth
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
Author:
John Negroponte
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My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.
Author:
Pola Negri
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My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
Author:
Edwin Moses
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.
Author:
Michael Moorer
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.
Author:
Shemar Moore
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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Author:
Robert Moog
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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
Author:
Ron Moody
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The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
Author:
Susanna Moodie
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Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.
Author:
Juliet Mills
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I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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But that in and of itself this past year was not a factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there, or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.
Author:
Tiffeny Milbrett
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
Author:
Barbara Mikulski
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Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
Author:
Nancy McKeon
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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Author:
Ian Mckellen
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With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.
Author:
John McHugh
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Author:
Al McGuire
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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
Author:
John McCain
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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Author:
Joseph McCabe
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A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
Author:
Harry Mathews
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The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
Author:
Richard Masur
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I had had no art training.
Author:
Dorothy Malone
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At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
Author:
Jeanette MacDonald
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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
Author:
Ann Macbeth
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I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.
Author:
Jay London
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Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.
Author:
Jonah Lomu
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I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
Author:
Kristanna Loken
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When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
Author:
Robert Lifton
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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.
Author:
Ivan Lendl
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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
Author:
John Legend
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I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
Author:
Frank Lampard
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Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
Author:
Frank Lampard
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Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.
Author:
Michelle Kwan
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Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.
Author:
Chiaki Kuriyama
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People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
Author:
Sandy Koufax
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There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
Author:
Lawrence Korb
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Author:
Zoltan Kodaly
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I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.
Author:
Don Knotts
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My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
Author:
Lawrence Klein
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The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
Author:
Lawrence Klein
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As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
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William King
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I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
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Jaime King
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Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
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Elizabeth Kenny
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I have no formal culinary training, right.
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Thomas Keller
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In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.
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Mathieu Kassovitz
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That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
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Janis Karpinski
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At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
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Janis Karpinski
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And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
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Alberto Juantorena
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You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
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Nancy Johnson
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We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.
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Nancy Johnson
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I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
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Donald Johanson
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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
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Bruce Jenner
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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
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Elfriede Jelinek
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Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
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Joseph Jarman
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Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
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Thomas Jane
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Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
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Arne Jacobsen
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The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.
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Sheldon Jackson
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Going to work around 8:00am at the body shop. After work it's either weight training or practicing afterwards.
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Ben Jackson
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I think the biggest thing that we are going to be able to do is focus on training, practicing, working on my starts, and taking each race one at a time.
Author:
Ben Jackson
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Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
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Jeremy Irons
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One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
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Daniel Inouye
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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
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Kim Il
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The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
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Thomas Huxley
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The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
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Tab Hunter
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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
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David Hunt
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I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
Author:
Clara Hughes
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
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Tom Hopkins
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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
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Simon Hoggart
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That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
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Martina Hingis
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My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
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Shuler Hensley
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I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
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John Hawkes
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I started training for musicals since I was a boy.
Author:
David Hasselhoff
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You learn more doing than doing training.
Author:
Ian Hart
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These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
Author:
Alan Hansen
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Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
Author:
Lee Haney
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The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.
Author:
Lee Haney
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I never took any vocal training.
Author:
Marvin Hamlisch
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Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
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Peter Hain
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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
Author:
Umberto Guidoni
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Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
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Stanislav Grof
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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
Author:
John Grierson
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
Author:
Benny Green
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Author:
Ulysses Grant
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But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Author:
Daniel Goleman
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I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
Author:
Rube Goldberg
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In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
Author:
Linda Godwin
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We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
Author:
Linda Godwin
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The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
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Linda Godwin
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It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.
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Linda Godwin
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Author:
Fay Godwin
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I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.
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David Ginola
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
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Lesley Garrett
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I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
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Sadie Frost
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But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
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Robert Fripp
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
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Anna Freud
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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
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Jonathan Franzen
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I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.
Author:
Louise Fletcher
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The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.
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Peggy Fleming
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For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
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Louis Finkelstein
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The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
Author:
Fred Fielding
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Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.
Author:
Fred Fielding
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They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.
Author:
Douglas Feith
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During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.
Author:
Jim Evans
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I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.
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Jim Evans
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The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
Author:
Jim Evans
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Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.
Author:
Jim Evans
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Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.
Author:
Jim Evans
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
Author:
Daniel Evans
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Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
Author:
R. Ermey
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There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
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R. Ermey
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I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.
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Joseph Epstein
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Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
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Epictetus
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We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
Author:
Todd English
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Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.
Author:
Herb Elliott
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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
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Charles Eastman
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It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
Author:
Michael East
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We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
Author:
Lawrence Eagleburger
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Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
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Katherine Dunn
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My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
Author:
Ann Druyan
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
Author:
Larry Dixon
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
Author:
Larry Dixon
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I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
Author:
Ronnie Dio
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Author:
Kate DiCamillo
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Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Author:
Neil Diamond
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I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
Author:
James Denton
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The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
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Peter DeFazio
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The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
Author:
Marc Davis
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So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
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Josephus Daniels
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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Author:
Bill Dana
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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Carson Daly
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Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.
Author:
Kenny Dalglish
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The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
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Richard Daley
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When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.
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Miley Cyrus
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You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Author:
Warren Cuccurullo
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I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
Author:
Warren Cuccurullo
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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Warren Cuccurullo
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
Author:
Warren Cuccurullo
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It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
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Warren Cuccurullo
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I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.
Author:
Catherine Crier
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I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
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Kenneth Cooper
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Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
Author:
Gerry Cooney
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I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
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Judy Collins
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My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
Author:
Sasha Cohen
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I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.
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Sasha Cohen
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I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.
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Sasha Cohen
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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George Clooney
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I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
Author:
Laurel Clark
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We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.
Author:
Laurel Clark
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'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.
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Joe Clark
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During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
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Anatoly Chubais
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And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
Author:
Brandi Chastain
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Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.
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David Carradine
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Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.
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David Carradine
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Author:
Orson Card
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
Author:
Harry Caray
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A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
Author:
Arthur Capper
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It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.
Author:
Kim Campbell
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Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.
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Kirk Cameron
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We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.
Author:
David Cameron
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In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
Author:
Ken Calvert
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
Author:
Gerard Butler
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I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
Author:
Gerard Butler