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 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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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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There is no [...] higher than the truth.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
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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.
