Jerry West Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
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Live simply so that others may simply live.
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As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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Don't want to meet your daddy, just want you in my caddy.
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I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.
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You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.
