Al Swearengen Quotes
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
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Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
