Jerry Kramer Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.
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There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
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My whole life has been one of seeking experience.
