Sid Waddell Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... but I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.
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Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.
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Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
