August Bier Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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To do something good, it has to scare you.
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He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.
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The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.
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I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
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Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
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Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.
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I never say of an operation that it is without danger.
