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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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
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Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.
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I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
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Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
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I leave to arrive, go away to be closer.
