Gary Player Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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We've obviously got to forget about that and now go on to the best of our ability.
