Harry Vardon Quotes
Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
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I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
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If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.
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Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
