Jack Nicklaus Quotes
I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ (Hays translation)
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I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
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In my misspent youth, I was risky.
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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
