Evel Knievel Quotes
If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
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In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.
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I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.
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It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.
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I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris Johnson cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
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If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
