Doug Flutie Quotes
Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
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I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
