Allan Donald Quotes
There are times when you can get away with a chirp at the batsman and there are times when you should just be quiet. This was one of those times.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.
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I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
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You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.
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There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.
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I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?
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My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?
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We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one’s smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.
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There are times when you can get away with a chirp at the batsman and there are times when you should just be quiet. This was one of those times.
