Mia Hamm Quotes
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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I love to perform live.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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'It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.'
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
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New York is my, you know, second hometown.
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
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If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
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Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
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I just know whenever I fall off His path, things get really hard. So I just stick with what God tells me to do.
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It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
