Gary Player Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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There is no one true church.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
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I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.
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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
