Geoffrey Boycott Quotes
A lot of wasted energy in my life has been spent on sorting out problems and issues at Yorkshire cricket. Of course, I know I made mistakes along the way, but I care passionately about the club - I always have done and always will.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?
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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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A lot of wasted energy in my life has been spent on sorting out problems and issues at Yorkshire cricket. Of course, I know I made mistakes along the way, but I care passionately about the club - I always have done and always will.
