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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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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Some Survivors get angry at having to work at recovering from sexual abuse. They feel that it is unfair. They suffered all their life because of what someone else did to them: why do they have to suffer any more pain? This anger of “having” to do something is similar to the anger they felt at “having” to put up with the abuse.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
