Allan Sloan Quotes

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Allan Sloan

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Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.

Maxine Peake

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After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.

Steve Rushin

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I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.

Robin Lord Taylor

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My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

Mary Kay Andrews

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When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, 'What can women do in boxing?' I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can't women? And I became a world champion before my marriage.

Mary Kom

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My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Mike Greenberg

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau

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Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

Joseph Brodsky

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Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

Dominic Sherwood

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The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.

Brandon Webb

RulesAdvantageOnlyNo RulesMajor

In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.

August Krogh

MomentManBloodMechanicalDemand

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Philip Sidney

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