Leigh Steinberg Quotes
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
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If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.
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There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
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You can't get any pictures from way back there.
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.
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I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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We're all negotiators.
