Alfred W. Crosby Quotes
“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”
