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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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?
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I hate chapped lips.
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It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.
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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.
