Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
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I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.
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Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
