Tony Dorsett Quotes

It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

Tony Dorsett

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• Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

  

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• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

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• Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

  

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• I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

  

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• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

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• We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

  

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• There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

  

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• We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

  

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• Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

  

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• You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock

  

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• I can spend it on shoes if I want to. You can go ahead and and buy bonds.

  

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• It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Scared
  • Daughters