Aron Nimzowitsch Quotes
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The devil made me do it.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
