Mort Sahl Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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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.
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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.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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.
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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.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
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(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.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.
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In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
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Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
