Wayne Teasdale Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
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When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
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One reads not for information, but inspiration.
