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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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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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.
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If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.
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I always got my work done before playing.
