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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Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.
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I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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We're all negotiators.
