Nicholas Andrea Dandolos (Nick the Greek) Quotes
Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
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I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.
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Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things.
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
