Bill Shankly Quotes
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
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I love my mom and dad.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.
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One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.
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I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
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Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.
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It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.
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I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.
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I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
