Tommy Cooper Quotes
A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I don't have a favourite designer. If I like the piece, I don't really care if it's any particular brand - I'll buy!
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.
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They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.
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I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
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Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.
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Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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It's not a bad typecast: the goofy guy.
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.
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A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.
