"If politicians would think more they would act less."

-- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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“One time I picked it up and a voice goes, 'Hi, it's Sinatra. Can you play me a record?' I was like, 'Oh yeah, very funny,' and hung up. I thought someone was having a joke, but it was actually Frank. My manager told me there aren't many people who put the phone down on Sinatra.”
“Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.”
“How do I keep fit? Â I lay down a lot.”
“I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.”
“conversation is now pretty well a lost art.”

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold
“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”
“The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it,”
“With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.”

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