Michael Irvin Quotes
Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.
Quotes to Explore
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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Multis terribilis timeto multos.
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I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.
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While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more.
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One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
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I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.
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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.
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Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny…
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Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.
