Jody Lynn Nye Quotes

I agreed to go on a date with a nice young man who was a former student of my uncle, who taught music in high schools and colleges. The nice young man took me to a party at his sister's, where I met people who introduced me to virtually all the elements of my future.

Jody Lynn Nye

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Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

Joe Montana

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I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

Joe Lhota

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I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

John Lee Hooker

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Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.

Michael Ignatieff

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Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

John Shelby Spong

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Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

Sid Waddell

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There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded.

Rob Lowe

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If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Ruth Reichl

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'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Michael Scheuer

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Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.

Jason Bateman

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I met a guy on the golf course who was a kinesiologist - after I looked up the word, I found out it meant exercise. I started working with him, and that was many years ago.

Johnny Mathis

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I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

Douglas Tompkins

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