"Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens."
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"I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind."
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"Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'"
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"One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing."
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"We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!""
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"As a quarterback, I've been the guy that people were yelling for; I've been the guy that's been booed in my own stadium."
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"I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did."
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"The people that hunt are the guys that really vehemently protect the environment. You find that people that live on ranches tend to want to keep it that way, and I've always loved that about the hunters that I've known. They eat what they kill, and they carry it out. They don't shoot for sport."
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"I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me."
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"When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off."
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"I think some of those guys might actually be better off if they had more wussy in them."
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"You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy."
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"I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person."
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"I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy."
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"You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"
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"When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned."
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"I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade."
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"The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all."
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"The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. The-End-is-Nigh guy blinked. "Ah, maybe, I don’t know."
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"Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it."
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