Fay Vincent Quotes
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
Fay Vincent
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
Damon Galgut
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
Kate Grenville
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Maajid Nawaz
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
V. S. Naipaul
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
Dallas Willard
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Imogen Cunningham
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
Tariq Ramadan
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
Lynn Abbey
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If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
Robert James Ritchi
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The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
Jerome Hines
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I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.
Leelee Sobieski
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
Fay Vincent
