M. L. Stedman Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
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De lo que tomo, tomo de más o de menos, no tomo lo justo. Lo justo no me sirve.
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Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
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That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
