Dave Winfield Quotes
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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I am a contrarian.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
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Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.
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Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
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You can do as much as you think you can,But you'll never accomplish more;If you're afraid of yourself, young man,There's little for you in store.For failure comes from the inside first,It's there if we only knew it,And you can win, though you face the worst,If you feel that you're going to do it.
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It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.
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I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.
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I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.
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Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.
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I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
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I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.
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The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
