Ernie Els Quotes
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What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
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I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.
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Mom-shaming drives me crazy.
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I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.
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Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
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Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.
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A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
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I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
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The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
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Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
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I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.
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If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!
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Your longest drives will come when you feel you're swinging at 75 percent.
