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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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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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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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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It's only a question of time before the Chinese develop good players.
