Mike Ditka Quotes
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
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In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.
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Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
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I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don't do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I'd be right there.
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Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
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I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.
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The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
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How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
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Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
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Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.
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I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.
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I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd just work as long as I wanted into the night. There was no structure.
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When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.
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If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
