Keith Waterhouse Quotes
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
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Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
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That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.
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Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?
