Al Davis Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that - and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.
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Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.
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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,
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Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
