Leigh Steinberg Quotes
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.
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Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
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I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
