Antonio Gates Quotes
“If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
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The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
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Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
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The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
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Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure.
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The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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I'm really only responsible for my own actions.
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I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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“If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.
