Suzy Menkes (Suzy Peta Menkes) Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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If people hate me they hate me.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
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If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.
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The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.
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I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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Syd's story is a sad story romanticised by people who don't know anything about it. They've made it fashionable but it's just not that way.
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There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.
