Wallace Stegner Quotes
He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
