Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
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My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.
