Derek Jeter Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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I simply believe that food is a human right.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Friendship is the most important thing of all.
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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.
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The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
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You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.
