Maeve Binchy Quotes
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
