Tom Kite Quotes
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
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I'm a real optimist.
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I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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I'm never going to turn down a fight.
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The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.
