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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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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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've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
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All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.
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It's been a long time coming, but I think this group has proven they are one of the top teams in the nation and that they deserve to be there. We're going down with the idea of having a good time, but when it's game time, we need to be ready to play. With this group of kids, I have no doubt they will be ready.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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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.
