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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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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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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I hope to be an actor and never retire.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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We are constantly searching from being afraid of finding.
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I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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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.
