Chuck Connors Quotes
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.Chuck Connors
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
Sam Brownback -
I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
Adam Peaty -
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
Patricia Marx -
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
Victoria Strauss -
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond -
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell -
We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
Faye Marsay -
The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
Ralph Peters -
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
Rae Carson -
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell -
'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
Abbi Glines -
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny -
Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
Adam Christopher
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I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.
William Manchester -
Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
Art Spiegelman -
I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.
Ben Crenshaw -
There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.
Archy Ivan Marshall -
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
Chuck Connors