I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.


Eric Heiden

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Do not blame your parents for who you are. They gave you the genes, but you choose how to wear them.
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I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
GLORIA ESTEFAN
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Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
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We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
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I want to thank you
for giving me the best day of my life.
DIDO
If you were blessed to have parents who taught you to be responsible for your choices, then you shou...
DANNY SILK
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, I had to get down. No more injuries right now.
DARRELL JACKSON
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative pare...
STEVEN PINKER
I thank you for your voices, thank you! Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices, ...
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You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people w...
DEB CALETTI
I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I thank you wholeheartedly because you cannot imagine all the happiness you are giving me.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving...
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I thank you for your voices: thank you:Your most sweet voices.
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Thank you For your existence in the same continuum, space & time together with me; giving me the cha...
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Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.
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Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw th...
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Asking for opinions doesn't mean that you're giving up the right to make the final call; it just hel...
LIZ RYAN
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CHAD HEDRICK
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
Heavenly Father, I thank you for your favour.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
Father God, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, for allowing us to be together under your co...
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It's right there at your fingertips, anytime you want it. We have our genes being given this feast. ...
DEAN JAMISON
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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I sa...
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Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a...
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For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.
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Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
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I thank you guys for having the vision to make me your head coach.
ERIC MANGINI
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CHRIS KLUG
Thank you everyone for your support.
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Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.

'Thank you for wearing that dress whi...
JOHN GREEN
Dear Mr. Webster: I have no words to thank you for your dictionary.
DIRCEU ALVES FERREIRA
No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still tho...
LEWIS BLACK
I want to thank you all for being here and for your love and support.
CLYDE SMITH
Thank you for your wonderful Pueblo hospitality, ... I don't care. I love the '80s!
EDDIE MONEY
I wish to take this opportunity to say thank you. I want to thank the incredible person, who so self...
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for the deafening roar.
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People always get used to beauty, though.”
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VICTOR BORGE
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making i...
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I just want to thank God for giving us the strength to accomplish this.
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Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym flo...
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When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job.
LAURIE NADEL
Thank you so much for your kind words.
BOB HARDY
Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
EUGENE ORMANDY
Thank you for showing me your marvelous guns.
STEVE MOSS
Thank you very much for your entire budget.
MAUREEN KELLY
Thank you for the exquisite comfort of your kitchen floor.
APRILYNNE PIKE
My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My da...
ASHTON KUTCHER
I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
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HELEN KELLER
I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christm...
ALEXA RILEY
Once I ate it, I started to feel better. I thank the coach for giving it to me.
ENEIL POLYNICE
For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't go...
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EPHDAN
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Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
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Mayor, I thank you very much for your understanding. I apologize on behalf of the Hispanic community...
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Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.
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You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts s...
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You can’t live your life for other people. You've got to do what’s right for you, even if it hur...
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You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it h...
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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If you can't handle the pressure, your'e not man enough to face the world. Giving up does not always...
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Dear God, thank you for yesterday, thank you for Today, thank you tomorrow and forever more..
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You defend them the same way you defend anyone else. I mean, of course, these guys are going to use ...
ANTREL ROLLE
I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
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I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.
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If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be count...
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Bob, the taxpayers thank you, ... A lot of families heretofore on welfare, as fathers and mothers wi...
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Annie, dearest friend: I am not long for this world and I wish to thank you for your kindness ere I ...
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Just because your lover died doesn't mean you can't find another. Besides, if
you don't start d...
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER
Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER
Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW
The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL
Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR.
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER