James Sinegal Quotes
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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We are not asking for a penny piece of Community money for Britain. What we are asking is for a very large amount of our own money back, over and above what we contribute to the Community, which is covered by our receipts from the Community.
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'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'
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Take a camel.
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The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
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Time needs another minute.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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We always strive to be the best in the wage package.
