Charlie Pierce Quotes

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

Charlie Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

Jim Palmer

SmartMostManageTooPitchers

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

John Battelle

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I'll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

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I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

Angela Lindvall

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Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

Amish Tripathi

WritingBelieveEndLanguageEnglish

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

Steve Prefontaine

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I was a subscriber to 'Sports Illustrated' like so many of us, and I was overwhelmed by a toxic mix of naivete and arrogance, and just thought to myself, 'I think I can write like this.'

Josh Elliott

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Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Jonathan Ames

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So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

Dinah Sheridan

ChallengeRealPartRegard

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

Dennis Ross

DiplomacyAlignmentSuccessfulMeans

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

Debra Messing

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I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

Colleen Haskell

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