Barry Sanders Quotes
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
