Barney Ross Quotes
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
Quotes to Explore
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree probably Caesar Baronius: 'The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'
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You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
