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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I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.
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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
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Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
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To me, for politicians to claim that we have an answer to every problem is silly. When you listen to some politicians reeling off their prepared answers, you almost fall for it. They’re all experts. But nothing ever happens.
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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.
