Jim Thorpe Quotes
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
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Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.
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What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.
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When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
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I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.
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Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down.
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Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
