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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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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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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'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.
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Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.
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A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight by their battle for fresh existence.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
