Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
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Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.
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Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.
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I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose such a development. Where is the justice in that?
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I leave to arrive, go away to be closer.
