Don Shula Quotes
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
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One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.
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It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
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Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.
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I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.
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I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.
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The child is not mine as the first was,I cannot sing it to rest,I cannot lift it up fatherlyAnd bliss it upon my breast;Yet it lies in my little one's cradleAnd sits in my little one's chair,And the light of the heaven she's gone toTransfigures its golden hair.
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I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
