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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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
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The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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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.
