Tony Dorsett Quotes
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I hate competition.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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The political left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
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I have a strong appreciation for oversize sweatshirts, loose mohair sweaters, and jeans that are frayed at the ankles.
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I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
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Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
