Oscar Taveras Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Home is where one starts from.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
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Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.
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As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.
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People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.
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How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
