John Surtees Quotes
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'
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Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.
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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
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If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
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Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.
