Garfield Sobers Quotes
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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There are two things that will blemish a retainer, and these are riches and honor. If one but remains in strained circumstances, he will not be marred.
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup And sold my Reputation for a Song.
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I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.
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The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.
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Our time is a time for crossing boundaries.
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I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.
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I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.
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My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'
