Ian Botham Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.
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No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
