Wellington Mara Quotes
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
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As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
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I have never been one to run when tragedy strikes.
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Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
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I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.
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As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do poets in public life to their cities.
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I am the last President of the United States!
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I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
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Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.
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Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.
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How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
