Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
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Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.
