Gary Player Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.
