Lee Trevino Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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I love all types of braids. Single, multiple, box braids - I try them all.
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Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
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The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
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My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
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In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
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Maybe it wasn’t anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.
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I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.
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A band is not a democracy: It's show business.
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Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
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When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
