Tommy Cooper Quotes
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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We all get self-centered.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Henneberger: If the Bible is not literally true, does that mean we don’t need to take it seriously? L'Engle: Oh no, you do, because it’s truth, not fact, and you have to take truth seriously even when it expands beyond the facts.
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Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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It's definitely attractive when a man can dress well.
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There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.
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I don't have any powers other than the power of sex. And humor.
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You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
