Beverly Sills Quotes
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
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I think I need security.
Zoe Sugg
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
Paddy Chayefsky
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
Zach LaVine
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Nancy Reagan
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-Pain
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Rachel Kushner
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. Griffin
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
Yasmine Bleeth
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Nate Silver
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
Gary Paulsen
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
Ian Goldin
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
Bear Grylls
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The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.
C. S. Lewis
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Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.
Clement Freud
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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
William Glasser
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I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
Alec Baldwin
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
Beverly Sills