Bill Shankly Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
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I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
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Where did he get jelly beans? That's another good question. More than likely it will never be answered to your complete satisfaction. But then, how many questions ever are?
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Materiam superabat opus
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I can feel a something pounding in my brainJust any time that someone speaks your nameTrumpets sound and I hear thunder boomEvery time that you walk in the room.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start? Why have you spent your time in dusty libraries, catologuing other people's books instead of writing your own? What had become of the Ram, the Bull and the Lion, the example I gave you to emulate? Where above all is the Virgin, with her shining face and curling tresses, whom I entrusted to you'- what should I say? I should have an answer ready. 'Well, it was you who let me down, and I will tell you how. You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched. This cindery creature is what you made me.' To which he might reply: 'But you have had half a century to get over it! Half a century, half the twentieth century, that glorious epoch, that golden age that I bequeathed to you!' 'Has the twentieth century,' I should ask, 'done so much better than I have? When you leave this room, which I admit is dull and cheerless, and take the last bus to your home in the past, if you haven't missed it - ask yourself whether you found everything so radiant as you imagined it. Ask yourself whether it has fulfilled your hopes. You were vanquished, Colston, you were vanquished, and so was your century, your precious century that you hoped so much of.
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We've been trying to get my body and head moving toward the target on the downswing. I have a tendency to hang back and not release the club.
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Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.
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I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
