Rickey Henderson Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.
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New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
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Granted, it's not easy to be a super-tall woman in Hollywood. But there are times when it works in my favour. In 'The Night Manager,' for example, both of my co-stars, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, are also well over 6 ft. and it was lovely to look a co-star in the eye and not have them standing on an apple box!
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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.
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I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
