Gene Tunney Quotes
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
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He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
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To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
