Eric Bristow Quotes
I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I'm very open-minded.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
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For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
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I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.
