John Newcombe Quotes
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.
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My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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They order, said I, this matter better in France.
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Is milk good or bad?... I rest my case. You don't know. You don't know anymore, and a lot of you are sitting there thinking 'Fuck, I'm an adult and I don't need to drink that shit anymore!' When I was a kid, you knew milk was good, 'cause there was only one kind of milk: Moo-Cow fuck milk, and that was it.
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I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.
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She expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but – further – she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, the confusion of the oral.
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These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.
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Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
