Bill Toomey Quotes
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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Some people have the gift where they can just sing. I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.
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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
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To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
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We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
