Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.
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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.
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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.
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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
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I was known for throwing knives.
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A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.
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There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.
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There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.
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When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.
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Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is.
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I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.
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I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
