Frank Deford Quotes
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken -
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
Halima Aden -
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Umberto Eco -
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames -
The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
Viggo Mortensen
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
Patina Miller -
I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson -
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Kuang -
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor
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I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
Gary Speed -
Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
Walt Whitman -
Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
Adam Smith -
It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
James Balog -
I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.
Joe Lando -
One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.
Bryan Kest -
It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.
Joanna Newsom -
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
Amity Gaige -
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.
Asger Jorn -
Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.
Frank Deford