Gary L. Blackwood Quotes
You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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I want to make people laugh.
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It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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Mehr Licht!
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I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.
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My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.
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I'm kind of sad that Tim is not going to direct any more of the Deadpool films, because I really love him. He's hilarious.
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Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
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Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.
