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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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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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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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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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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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
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Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
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By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
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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.
