Byron Nelson Quotes

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

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• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  

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• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  

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• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

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• When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

  

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• A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.

  

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• Sometimes I'll do a mask if I had a lot of makeup on that day or was out in the sun. I like a hydrogen mask. It's an easy one, and it's supposed to soothe and relax your skin.

  

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• ...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

  

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• Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

  

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• Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.

  

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• Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

  

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• Until the artist is dead, we are not able to determine his work in all its dimensions.

  

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• For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.

  

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• Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.

  

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• I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.

  

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• I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

  

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• I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.

  

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• I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

  

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• The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

  

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• It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

  

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• The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

  

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• If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

  

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• I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

  

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• Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.

  

  Dany Heatley
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• Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

  

  Byron Nelson