Troy Polamalu Quotes
I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
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Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. (p.19)
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I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
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I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.
