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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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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It is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart, what principles he acknowledges, what things he loves; and then observe in the thing in question what affinity it has with the acknowledged principles, or with the objects so delightful by the pleasure which they give him.
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It's not easy not getting playing time, but you have to keep showing up and working your tail off to be ready.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.
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It's only a question of time before the Chinese develop good players.
