Paul Gallico Quotes
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I would like to have a rematch against Fabricio Werdum.
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
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Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.
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Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
