Tommy Cooper Quotes
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
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I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.
