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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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
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It is hidden but always present.
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I leave to arrive, go away to be closer.