Dan Dierdorf Quotes
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
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I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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(to Niall) 'Help!' 1
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I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
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As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
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You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
