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My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
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My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Source: Stephen Hawking's Universe (1985) by John Boslough , Ch. 7 -
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
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My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
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My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
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My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
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My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.
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My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Source: Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications -
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Source: (2004)
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