Tommy Cooper Quotes
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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How lucky am I?
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
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A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.
