"I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere."

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Source : "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.

Joe Dante

#Sports Quotes #Father Quotes #Golf Quotes

“When all else fails there's always delusion.”
“I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.”
“The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.”
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.
“"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.”
“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.”
“The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.”

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