Dan Gable Quotes
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.
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Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.
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I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
