Ila Borders famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
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After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
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I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
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I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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