Alexis Arguello Quotes
When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.
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When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully
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I really actually enjoy auditioning.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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What's the big deal if I dress casually and dance in my backyard.
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When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.
