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.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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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.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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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.
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This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are.
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
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I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.
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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.
