Jamie Oliver Quotes
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
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I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
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I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.
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There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
