Bob Backlund Quotes
Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. 'Scabs' their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions!
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With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
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I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.
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I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
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I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
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I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.
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And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.
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I think that people love 'Wipeout' simply because it's just plain, simple fun.
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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
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Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.
