Ernie Els Quotes
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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I don't want anybody to take my kindness as a weakness. Like I said before, this is where I want to be, but don't test me. It never was a done deal. It was a possibility. I'm happy about that. But there's two sides to that. On one side, I trust you, but don't play me. I don't care who it is, if it's the Boss, if it's him, don't play me. There are plenty of other teams out there that want my services ... that's the bottom line.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
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Some people aren't comfortable with being comfortable. Some people really want to be pushed and find people that they can pull something out of you that you didn't know you had, and you can scare yourself.
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Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
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The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
