Mort Sahl Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
Natalie Gulbis -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block -
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson -
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge -
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens -
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu -
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
Laura Schlessinger
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
Quincy Jones -
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
Daley Thompson -
They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
Victor Borge -
The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser
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Harry Dresden: Tequila? Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.Bob: Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?Harry Dresden: Uh, I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.
Jim Butcher -
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama -
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
John Cornwell -
There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
Mort Sahl