Alan Sillitoe Quotes
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
Larry Brown
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Paris Hilton
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Edmond About
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Dalai Lama
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
Taylor Sheridan
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
W. G. Sebald
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
Ted Deutch
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
Sam Neill
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
Pam Bondi
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson
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Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
Ban Ki-moon
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
Zooey Deschanel
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
J. D. Salinger
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
Warren Farrell
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An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.
Paula Creamer
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Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
Kapil Dev
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
Dalai Lama
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Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
S. I. Hayakawa
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
