Leon Spinks Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
Ted Cruz -
When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
Ion Tiriac -
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen -
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
Victor LaValle
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell -
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader -
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop -
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
Pat Robertson
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
Taye Diggs -
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
Sam Palladio -
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White -
At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
Ram Charan -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos -
A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.
Kym Whitley -
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie -
So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
Rainn Wilson -
I love helping the kids.
Leon Spinks