Ken Venturi Quotes

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

Ken Venturi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1931 - May 17, 2013

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Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Joe Baca

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I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well.

Joan Rivers

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I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

Andrew Scott

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I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

John Henry Carver

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I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Angela Lansbury

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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

Ang Lee

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For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be in my home or take my kids to school. But I realized it really wasn't that. It really is its own spaceship. And I had always been a space traveler.

Michael J. Massimino

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

Rosemary Mahoney

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You can't trust people.

Miguel Cabrera

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