Garfield Sobers Quotes
West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.
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Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
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When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.
