Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
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Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.
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I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.
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In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.
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I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
