Champ Bailey Quotes
I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.
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Good design should be honest.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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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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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
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SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
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It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
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Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
Garry Kasparov
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.
