Percy Ross Quotes
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.
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To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
