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All Quotes Collection
"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."
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"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
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"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
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"If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype."
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"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."
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"But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed."
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"The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money."
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"Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission."
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"So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why."
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"It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See."
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"Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come."
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"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement."
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"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so."
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"As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function."
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"My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?"
God,
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"The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996."
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"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life."
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"One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams."
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"I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle."
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"I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."
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"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."
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"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it."
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"A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games."
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"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
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"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
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"I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics."
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"Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating."
Life,
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"Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake."
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"So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements."
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