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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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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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
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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.'
