Oliver Reed Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
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The first thoughts of an Englishman on appointment to the office of Foreign Secretary must be that he speaks in the name, not of Great Britain only, but of the British Dominions beyond the seas, and that it is his imperative duty to preserve in word and act the diplomatic unity of the British Empire. Our interests are one. Our intercourse must be intimate and constant, and we must speak with one voice in the Councils of the world.
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I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
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There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
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It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must believe that He is growing in our lives; we must believe it so firmly that we cannot help relating everything, literally everything, to this almost incredible reality.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
