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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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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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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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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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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People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.
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I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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The way I choose to dress, I want to influence other people around me, I suppose.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
