"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
-Jean Genet
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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.“
-Jean Genet
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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
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"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right."
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"Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success."
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"It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports."
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"Fame and success are very different things."
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"It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that."
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"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts."
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