You Quotes
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You've got to be realistic.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.