Ian Botham Quotes
I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
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If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
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De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.
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Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.
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I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
