Sebastian Junger Quotes
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
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Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down.
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Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years.
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I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
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People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
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Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
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We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.
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The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
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A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
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The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
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Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.
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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
