Dave Mason Quotes
Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.
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Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
