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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips
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It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. William Wyler
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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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The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. Virginia Postrel
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My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also. Bonnie Tyler
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Where has the peace movement gone? Here it is. You see that people are standing up and they want to make their voices heard and get encouraged by us and join us. Rachel Friedman
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I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer. Sharon Creech
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Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.
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We are looking at this as a springboard into the Big East. I'm disappointed and obviously we're not happy with the outcome, but we're going to use this to get better, and I feel that we have. I am encouraged by our direction.
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We're encouraged that they put forth a plan that recognizes the need for considerable new spending on transportation. Kevin Hall
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We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.
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We're encouraged by the company's results, particularly after reporting somewhat disappointing November sales.
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I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic. William Christopher
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Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.
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My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money. Nikki Reed
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We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes. Sean Hayes
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We hang or heads over missed shots just so much it is like we are grade school again. You can't let those things take you out of the game. Jerry Sloan
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We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.
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Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the first, and seldom do you have a second-round grade and he's picked in the sixth.
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The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.
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We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.
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If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it. William Shatner
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I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature. Frank Marshall
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What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work. Boris Johnson
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You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it. Douglas Conant
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You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it. Tommy Lasorda
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As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.
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Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list. Alexa Von Tobel
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg
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We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.