Don Zimmer Quotes
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Education is so important.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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It just as easily could have gone the other way.