Walter Payton Quotes
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Quotes to Explore
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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I can paint in jail.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
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Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.
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I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
