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• Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

  Neil Armstrong

  Airplane, Excitement, Now And Then

  "Neil Armstrong Dead: First Man On The Moon Dies At 82", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2012.

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Zero, Opportunity, Thinking

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• If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Father, Married, Understood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.

  Burt Reynolds

  Laughing, Stories, Audience

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• My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.

  Roger Federer

  My Family

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• My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.

  Jason Kidd

  Jobs, Cheer, Being Positive

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• There was always something missing in Montreal.

  Pedro Martinez

  Montreal, Schindler's List

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• I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

  Chris Paul

  Distance, Long, Lines

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• In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Football, Single Mom

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• When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

  Cole Hamels

  Catchers, Curveballs, Okay

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• I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.

  Matt Holliday

  College, Bigs, Concerned

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• My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.

  Priest Holmes

  People, May, Outrun

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• I don't skip practice, I'm not late for meetings, I'm professional in everything I do, you never hear about me not showing up for planes and missing flights, so why is it that I'm always being labeled a bad guy?

  Jeff Cunningham

  Practice, Guy, Showing Up

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• Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Thinking, Gone, Sometimes

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• I miss basketball every now and then.

  Derrek Lee

  Basketball, Now And Then

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• I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

  Rafael Soriano

  Yankees, Teammate, My Friends

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• The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.

  Thomas Vanek

  Fun, Nhl, Games

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• Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Joy, Might, Way

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• People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

  Paul Westerberg

  Errors, Swings, Roots

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• To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Bored, Purpose

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• Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Opportunity, Shut Up

  "No Screen Hog: Reese Witherspoon Plays Producer For ‘Penelope’". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Life Is Good, America

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• Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

  Don McLean

  Drinking, Boys, Bye

  "Song "American Pie" ("American Pie")". 1971.

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• Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Drug, Hours

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  The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Giving, Receiving, Growing

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