Westbrook Pegler Quotes
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
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When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian refugee trying to get into the United States is scrutinized by officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and Pentagon.
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I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.
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I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.
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It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.
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I'm just trying to be the best Doug Baldwin I can be.
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
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Whether I'm riding a horse or driving a car, I'm feeling them, judging what they're doing, trying to work out what I can take them up to.
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I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.
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I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.
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I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.
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A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
