Denis Healey Quotes
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
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There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
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We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.
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it is a cheering thought to thinkthat god is on the side of the best digestion
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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
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It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
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The Tribune (28 March 1986).
