Major Owens Quotes
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
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I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
