Paavo Nurmi Quotes
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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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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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
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No! No no no no no no! Well, yes.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
