Roddy Piper Quotes

They say that wrestlers are actors, and they couldn't be more wrong. The truth is wrestling and acting could not be more opposite. Wrestling is explosion, and acting is implosion.

Roddy Piper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 17, 1954 - July 31, 2015

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White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

Jess Row

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Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.

Michael Greger

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It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

Robby Gordon

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As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, it is my honor to nominate young people to our military academies.

Ron Barber

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Juan Cole

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Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Judy Biggert

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I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

Claire Messud

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In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices.

Bob Ney

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I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that I have gained some respect from some people whom I respect.

Brie Larson

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The road to success runs uphill.

Willie Davis

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I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

Wolfman Jack

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I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

Pearl Cleage

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