Harry Vardon Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.
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The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.
