Jock Stein Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.
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A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
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One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
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We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football.
