J. F. Lawton Quotes
We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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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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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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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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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
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You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
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In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.
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Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.'
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.
