Barry McGuigan Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country
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“The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
