Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo (Nick Faldo) Quotes
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
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When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.
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In the chapter called "On Being a Woman in Politics," we have to come to grips with the endemic sexism and misogyny. Of course, it's not just in politics. It's in business. We have seen a lot of that coming out of Silicon Valley, and it's in the media, it's in culture. We know that.
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You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.
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Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
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We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
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We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
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One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
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Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
