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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If I have a meeting or need to look more done up, the thing I can always do is a cat eye.
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The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
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Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
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I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'
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When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
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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.
