Bob Beamon Quotes
I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
