Gale Sayers Quotes
I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I just want to do my job.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
