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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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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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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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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When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But you want someone who'll help you catch the bus.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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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.
