Adam Gilchrist Quotes
On reflection, I think I was too focused on saving the game, ... I should have played naturally. I was too entrenched in a match-saving mindset.Adam Gilchrist
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
V. S. Naipaul -
River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
Zach Galligan -
I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
Randall Park -
I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
Nargis Fakhri -
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris -
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
Adam Carolla -
I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
Carl Barks -
This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.
Chuck Schumer -
I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.
Colbie Caillat
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
Bill Dickey -
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Eric Cantona -
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
Jerry West -
I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.
Doug Baldwin -
America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.
Maurice Gibb Bee Gees -
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner
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It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
Dirk Bogarde -
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'
Bradley Whitford -
Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
Jennifer Pahlka -
Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.
Sanaa Lathan -
I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.
Lindi Ortega -
On reflection, I think I was too focused on saving the game, ... I should have played naturally. I was too entrenched in a match-saving mindset.
Adam Gilchrist