Champ Bailey Quotes
The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.
Quotes to Explore
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.
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Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.
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'There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.'
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I am going through with my barnstorming tour to the end. Bob Meusel and the other Yanks on my club agree with me that it will not hurt the game, as Landis fears. In fact, if anything, it will create more interest in next year's campaign for me to play out this tour. If Landis wants to put me out of organized baseball, let him do so. I will continue the tour.
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
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My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole.
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The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.
