Ian Botham Quotes
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles-it isn’t funny these days-that there were only a thousand real people in the UK-everybody else was a non-player character. Now it’s pretty much the reverse.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
