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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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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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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Leadership does matter.
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I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.
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You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.
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if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
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When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
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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.
