Hank Aaron Quotes
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.
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There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
