Alberto Moravia Quotes
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.
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I didn't have a record player.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
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I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
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As a 6-foot, 6-inch, 300-pound black man, I've done everything I can to stay out of that box that Hollywood tries to put me in. I've been able to play a variety of roles, like the character of Vern in 'Shall We Dance?' with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez to the character of Neal in 'Things We Lost in the Fire.' I've been blessed.
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The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger.
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
