Sela Ward Quotes
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Man is an imagining being.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
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She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps.
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Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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Even if I had money to invest I wouldn't invest it in oil companies - - or their bankers, suppliers, customers ... really that means the whole stock market. I'm not opposed to divestment, but I think by itself it won't get very far. The demand is still there, the fossil fuel infrastructure is still there. Where I would like to see our political energy go is to stop ecocide on a local and bioregional level. Each new energy project involves horrible abuse of mountaintops, groundwater, forests, etc., because all the easy resources have already been extracted.
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Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.
