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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
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My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
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My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages (1907) -
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
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