Kirk Kerkorian Quotes
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
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I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
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Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be A
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
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When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
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Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.
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I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.
