Ian Rush Quotes
In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management concerns that I often subsist for weeks on instant oatmeal and multivitamins.
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Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can test my own kids without human subject permission, so they pilot - I pilot my ideas on them. And so it is a tremendous advantage to have kids if you're going to be a developmental psychologist.
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
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Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
