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I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
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Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.
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I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.
years lasts given
After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.
live-life joy frustrated
I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.
feet yesterday today
If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.
success acceptance years
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.
growing-up ambition hockey
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
dog exercise golf
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
act cells happening living molecular proteins spies within
The proteins act as molecular spies that tell us what is happening within cells in the living mouse.
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The psychological effects are immense. Children understand sameness. And for reasons out of everybody's control, you've yanked that away. You've devastated their world.
aggressive capitalize democrats expect gains order suburbs
There are some indications here that the suburbs are much more in play ... and I would expect going into 2006 to see the Democrats being very aggressive in order to capitalize on their gains this year.
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There are some negatives out there, but manufacturing and factory orders seem to be coming back and there will be a lot of rebuilding down in the Southeast. I think we've basically been too negative.
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There are some real competitive issues going on, and (Microsoft) needs to respond, not just with products and offerings for consumers but also (with) compelling products and APIs for developers, ... There's a recognition that people are embracing the Web as a platform, and they (Microsoft) want to be there as well.