Jose Bergamin Quotes
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.
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I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.
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So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
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I never met Paul McCartney.
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In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
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Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
