Bud Collins Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.
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I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'
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My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
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(describing Celine Dion's family of 14 siblings) You know there is just issues and boundries and secrets. The name of my book.
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It's only a question of time before the Chinese develop good players.
