Lee Trevino Quotes
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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I like to collect DVDs of most English films.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
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Power only does all its business of empowering when it's perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.
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Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
