Ian Botham Quotes
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
