Dave Parker Quotes
Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
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On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.
