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I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
Jeb Bush

Life, Time, Focus

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
Jack Kemp

Bad, Cause, Concern

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil

Mind, Remember, Point

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
Padma Lakshmi

Writing, Real, Lucky

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz

Life, Strength, Live

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz

Political, Suffering, Sense

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
Todd English

Time, Father, Old

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.
Louis Stokes

Found, Conspiracy, Commission

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
Mario Monti

Country, Growth, Individual

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Men, Truth, Exist

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
Arnold Palmer

Career, Become, Aviation

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
George Wald

Men, History, Since

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.
Katharine McPhee

Theater, Musical

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.
John Hume

Party, Strategy, Pursuing

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
Anita Roddick

Business, Past, Different

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
Harold Ramis

Spiritual, Woman, Passion

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
J. William Fulbright

War, Feeling, Why

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke

Men, Said, Used

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
Lajos Kossuth

State, Three, House

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Marguerite Young

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
John O. Brennan

Law, Sure, Security

I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.
Lucas Papademos

Strong, Past, Social

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
Hugh Grant

Single, Since, Longer

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
Brian De Palma

Dreams, Time, Strong

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
Bruce Sterling

Start, Shadow, Cut

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
Neil Tennant

Music, Done, Wanted

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey

Dreams, Writing, Creative

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
Randy West

Career, Radio, Eventually

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
Polykarp Kusch

Knowledge, Alone, Science

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs

Government, Purpose, Desire

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