Archie Manning Quotes
I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.
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Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
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Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.
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I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.
