Curtis Strange Quotes
I think it's a wonderful honor and privilege to be called that. But you do it to his face. I ain't doing it.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
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Portability should be the default.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
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Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
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My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
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I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.
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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.
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For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
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I think it's a wonderful honor and privilege to be called that. But you do it to his face. I ain't doing it.
