Garfield Sobers Quotes
When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to do, and I tried to do it to the best of my ability.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I don't like people who are just takers.
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Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
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…the whole world here breathed easy concupiscence…
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I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
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When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.
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When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to do, and I tried to do it to the best of my ability.
