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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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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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”
