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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I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
