Gary Player Quotes
My goal was to break 80. When you get to 70, if I can break 80, I consider that a victory.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.
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Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
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My goal was to break 80. When you get to 70, if I can break 80, I consider that a victory.
