Ian Holloway Quotes
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).
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Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.
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I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Appearance is valued too much in our society.
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I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!