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“I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.”
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“Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.”
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“I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.”
Source : "Stats Geek Bill James Applies His Science to Serial Killers" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 04, 2011.
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“Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.”
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“Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.”
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“If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.”
Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
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“I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.”
Source : David Millar, Jeremy Whittle (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.116, Simon and Schuster