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"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
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"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."
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"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."
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"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun."
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"I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio."
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"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job."
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"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
Work

"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important."
Money

"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month."
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"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
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"There was no one around me who didn't work hard."
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"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
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"That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into."
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