Peter Uihlein Quotes
That's match play. You've got to get lucky. You've got to try to catch somebody on a down day when you have a down day.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.
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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
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Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.
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It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.
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From the age of 15 to 50, I'd hardly stepped out of a kitchen. I just wanted to live a little, to spend time with my wife and children. The first time I saw snow was when I was 50, because I'd never had the time before.
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We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out.
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
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That's match play. You've got to get lucky. You've got to try to catch somebody on a down day when you have a down day.
