Geoffrey Boycott Quotes
We've got to get the public back into watching Test matches - speeding up the game with innovation is one way forward.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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We've got to get the public back into watching Test matches - speeding up the game with innovation is one way forward.
