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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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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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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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack.
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Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
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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.
