Gary Player Quotes
It's a strange game, ... Today you shoot 66. Tomorrow you shoot 73. It changes within hours.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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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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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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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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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.
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It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before
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Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
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Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung.
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Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
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It's a strange game, ... Today you shoot 66. Tomorrow you shoot 73. It changes within hours.
