David Bailey Quotes
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
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It's those damn critics again.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
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We can't have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief, giving clean packs of money to a ... state sponsor of terror. Those 500-euro notes will pop up across the Middle East. .... We're going to see problems in multiple (countries) because of that money given to them.
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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
