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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
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I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.
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History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
