Geoffrey Boycott Quotes
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
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I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
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I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.
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Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
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They should cut Joel Garner off at the knees to make him bowl at a normal height.
