Jack Nicklaus Quotes
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Quotes to Explore
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.
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There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
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The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
