Dan Gable Quotes
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I want to serve the people.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
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If you're a good person, that's all that really matters.
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Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
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Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.
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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
