Jonathan Vilma Quotes

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.

Jonathan Vilma

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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Jim Harrison

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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Anatole Broyard

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There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

John Lydon

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In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

Michael Horton

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Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

John Spratt

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Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Sue Wicks

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For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Steven Price

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People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Tom Scholz

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In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

Michelle Alexander

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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Lorna Luft

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One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Joshua Waitzkin

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The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

Jon Postel

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