Val Doonican Quotes
Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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As long as I live I will have control over my being.
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
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Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
