Bill Toomey Quotes
When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
Rachel Sklar
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
Gabrielle Union
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
Rand Paul
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I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
Karin Slaughter
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
Manoj Bhargava
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
Mandy Patinkin
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
Olivia De Havilland
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
Mae Whitman
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
Amy Tan
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I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!
Derek Jacobi
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Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
Chelsea Handler
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Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u.
Nicki Minaj
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There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
Bill Keller
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When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
Bill Toomey