Ian Botham Quotes
You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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The Idealization of deep flaws seeping through coiled cracks;The reality we all want to avoid is a plagued sickness we choose to live with.
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
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You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
