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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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.
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I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.
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I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.
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I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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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.
