Edwin Moses Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.
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It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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I always got my work done before playing.
