Lee Haney Quotes
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.
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If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's not really that exciting.
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In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
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Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
