Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

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• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

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• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

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• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

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• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

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• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

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• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

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• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

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• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

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• Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

  

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• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

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• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  

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• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  

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• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

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• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

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• If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

  

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• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  

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• At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

  

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• People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

  

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• I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

  

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• I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

  

  Drummond Money-Coutts
  • People
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  • Magic