Samuel Beckett Quotes
This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I want to win football games.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I think celebrities suck.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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Stalinism and fascism, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmetrical phenomena. In many of their features they show a deadly similarity.
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Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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Don't know much, but I know I love you.
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This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
