Tommy Cooper Quotes
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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When you get the first knock, it kind of wakes you up: you know, they are men, and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won't feel anything after the game. You definitely get harder knocks, but it helps. You just get up and get on with the game, and then you can give it to them back.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I've done some films that, on paper, were really interesting and special. And for some reason, when they got on screen, it just didn't work. Well, I didn't get to watch the film before I decided to do it.
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I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
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We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.
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So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
