Joe E. Lewis Quotes
If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
Joe E. Lewis
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
Said Nursi
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
Ted Dekker
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
Patrick Wilson
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
Zebulon Pike
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
Zaha Hadid
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
Haley Lu Richardson
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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
J. J. Abrams
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
Alice Ripley
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I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.
Kathryn Stockett
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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
Joe E. Lewis
