Lynn Swann Quotes
Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I'm not a sun person.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.
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I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.
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One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
