Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
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Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.
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The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
