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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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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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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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
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The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
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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.
