Ted Williams Quotes
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
