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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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I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy. Brea Grant
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I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works. Bill Hader
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My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning. Judith Butler
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That was awesome. It just shows that even when we did have errors, we persevered. We ended up making the plays that won us the game. Boo Rigsbee
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We could have gone undefeated and still ended up in the same position, in the Sugar Bowl." ()
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights. Ralph Bakshi
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We have that kind of game. I had to keep them (Bartlett) in the game most of the time, and then somehow we ended up with the win.
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We were having problems generating chances, having problems with their speed. Obviously the second goal at the end of the period was key. That's what I like about what happened, we ended up finding a way. John Tortorella
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I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. Yousuf Karsh
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It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music. Todd Rundgren
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%. Idina Menzel
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time. Ian Frazier
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Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts. Ian Mckellen
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In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.
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I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football. Gaines Adams
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing. Gad Elmaleh