Evel Knievel Quotes
If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
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'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.
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I cook what I like.
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I take every possible side.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
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I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
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If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
