Mort Sahl Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
Natalie Gulbis -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block -
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson -
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens -
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu -
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
Quincy Jones -
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
Daley Thompson
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They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
Victor Borge -
The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser -
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
Randall Jarrell -
The world is me and I am the world.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
Colin Wilson -
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
Alberto Manguel -
I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
Jackie Cooper -
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
Pliny the Elder -
There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
Mort Sahl