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In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.


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CHUCK BENNETT Don't let your doubts in your own abilities infect other peoples aspirations for themselves.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN I think the media has thought a lot more about the Heiden record than I have. Eric has said that it'...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove sp...
PABLO SANDOVAL It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it c...
CHARLAINE HARRIS I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and ca...
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FREDDY FERRER I just let my actions speak for themselves. I let my game do my talking.
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JANE GOODALL As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't m...
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TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
TOM BRADY Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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TWYLA THARP Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves f...
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DOCTOR WHO Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
DOCTOR WHO First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
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DR. WHO The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to f...
DOCTOR WHO Good place to put things - cellars.
DOCTOR WHO Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
DOCTOR WHO When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
~DOCTOR WHO The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. the good things don't always s...
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DOCTOR WHO There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream....
DOCTOR WHO Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
DOCTOR WHO Resistance is useless.
DOCTOR WHO The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over,
DOCTOR WHO I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
DOCTOR WHO Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.
BETTY WHO See, it's packing up already!
DR. WHO Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell...
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BETTY WHO To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I wa...
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BETTY WHO He is being compared to Eric Steinbach. In 35 years, I've never had a kid who was recruited so much....
ED BRUCKER There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest fo...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I think the American team is always strong in the Olympics. They rise above their abilities.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic ...
REBECCA ROMIJN STAMOS This is serious business. This isn't just cute. These are athletes who have trained for a minimum of...
MARGARET LARSEN I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do...
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ANNE BRONTë I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who could...
ADAM JOHNSON I've given up trying to reassure them. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves.
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ERIC PARSLOW It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER