Barry Alvarez Quotes
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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Cocteau fell for Raray [shooting La Belle et la Bête] ― the park, not the castle. We didn't shoot in the castle, only in the park, with that marvelous hunting scene in stone. I think it was mostly because the park wasn't properly maintained. That was what pleased Cocteau most ― the sense of wildness, exactly matching the nature of the beast.
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.
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... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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In looking up the word in Webster’s dictionary I found the term “nigger” very descriptive: “a vulgar, offensive term of hostility and contempt for the black man.” I can’t think of anything that defines better and more accurately what our position toward the nigger should be than what the dictionary said. If we are going to be for racial integrity and racial purity... we must take a hostile position toward the nigger. We must give him nothing but contempt.
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I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.
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Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map...
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Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
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It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
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We were beaten by a very good football team.
