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And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. Willie Mays
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You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much. William Scott
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There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
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The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
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The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
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We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. Whitey Herzog
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The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. Ian Mckellen
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My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. Will Poulter
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. Zubin Mehta
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. Yani Tseng
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I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker
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I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. Chris Carter
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! Emma Watson
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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him. Elizabeth Wurtzel
matter might novels
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. William Lashner
matters solid
The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class. Dennis Franchione
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The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.
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The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting. Simon Cowell
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn. Nick Jonas
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. C. S. Lewis
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Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter. Cecelia Ahern
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In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe Bill Bryson
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. Bertrand Russell
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
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We were simply brushed off by MAF officials. Peter Berg
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I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes. Jack Whittaker
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War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong. Martin Sheen
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He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments. Patrick Vieira
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I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.
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I can tell you that simply did not happen.
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But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier. Ellen Wilkinson
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Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. Phillips Brooks
success
Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect. Ben Barnes
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Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.
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As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful. Carrie Underwood
successful moon men
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that. Carl Sagan
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. Bette Davis
success difficult
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
success believe thinking
I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still. Ashton Kutcher
success people groups
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.' Arsene Wenger
success motivation people
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.