J. R. Moehringer Quotes

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

J. R. Moehringer

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Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

Jerry Saltz

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I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Michael Bloomberg

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We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

Michael D. Barnes

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I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

John Singleton

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In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Spike Jonze

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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.

Mary Beard

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I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Milan Kundera

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I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.

Jasmila Zbanic

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I am solidly, 100 percent behind Donald Trump.

Chris Collins

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Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Conor McGregor

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