Hale Irwin Quotes
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.
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I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.
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I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
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I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
