Rick Majerus Quotes
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.
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I'm not radical.
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
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Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
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Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
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The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.
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I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
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Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.
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I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.
