Alastair Mackenzie Quotes

There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.

Alastair Mackenzie

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• Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
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• I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  

  A. P. Martinich
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• I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Real
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• I ... will not let the attacks put me off. As far as I am concerned, it is just a normal day at work.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
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• It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Up
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• Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.

  

  Nalini Singh
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• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.

  

  Jason Mraz
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  • Song

• Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Speak
  • Communication
  • Names

• There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Enough
  • Library

• There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dangerous
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• So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day - maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to know: this is good, not bad, news for the program... Lots of people logging on and signing up on the very first day... is an early indication that it’s going to be fine, that plenty of people will sign up for the first year of health reform.

  

  Paul Krugman
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• France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

  

  Wilson Greatbatch
  • Energy
  • Perfect
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• There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.

  

  Alastair Mackenzie
  • Grows
  • Ball
  • Excitement