Don Yaeger Quotes
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
