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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely and more interestingly.

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William Sloane Coffin Jr.
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Category: Sports

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
  • 2. I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me and the other was the same age and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and he of course was much older than me but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.
  • 3. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit don't you think?
  • 2. Success breeds volume and it's just amazing how many young writers artists and musicians there are in town.
  • 3. Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

3 Anger

  • 1. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
  • 2. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  • 3. I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
  • 2. I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
  • 3. But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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