Len Dawson Quotes
One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
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People think immigration is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.
