Douglas Adams Quotes
You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.
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Substantial services growth is core to Boeing's strategy.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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Modern cars I don't like so much.
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You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.
