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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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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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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My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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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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Oh, sweet it is, where grass is deepAnd swifts are overhead,To lie and watch the clouds, and weepFor friends already dead.
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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It's only a question of time before the Chinese develop good players.
