Evel Knievel Quotes
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
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I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.
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Regional interest rate differentials persisted until around the time of World War I and helped shape the attitudes of Americans living in western areas toward the nation's financial system.
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
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So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
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Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
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I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
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I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.
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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
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My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
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My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
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I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.
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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'
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For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
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You're never a failure until you fail to get up.
