Fred Couples Quotes
Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I hate competition.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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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 have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.
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I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.
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Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
