Darrell Royal Quotes
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I was a horrible student.
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Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
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Whether it's standing backstage with Jennifer Lopez in a dress that I know everyone will be talking about tomorrow... or being there when incredible news breaks, and instead where people sit in front of their TVs and look at it, I'm the person who goes there to bring you the story... It's amazing. It's unbelievable.
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My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.
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When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
