John Caudwell Quotes
I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's like.
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I've done drag races. I've done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I've done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I've done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I've had a passion for it for a long time.
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His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.
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I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
