Mark Lawrenson Quotes
'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I don't want to be unapproachable.
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I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.
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Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
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I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
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People are proud of their players.
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'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.
