Albert Payson Terhune Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
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I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.
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I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.
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I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.
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If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
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Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
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We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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He is well and truly head and shoulders No.1 in the world, there's no question of that.
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Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
