Barry Switzer Quotes
They had no game plan for losing. . . . Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete . . . get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.

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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.
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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.
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Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
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They had no game plan for losing. . . . Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete . . . get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.