Geoffrey Wolff Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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A great library contains the diary of the human race.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
