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A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

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• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Wonder
  • Lucky

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Experience
  • War
  • Period

• By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sense

• I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • People
  • Know
  • Ladder

• Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • War
  • Achieve

• The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Different
  • Crazy

• To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Love
  • For Her

• I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Food
  • Big
  • Dude

• Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Desire
  • Fire

• Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Forever

• It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • People
  • Nature

• What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Earth
  • Deep

• Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • Science
  • Popular

• When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Great

• I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Football

• I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

  

  Karl Donitz
  • Action
  • Problem
  • Concerned

• A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

  

  Pele