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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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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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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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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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.
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A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
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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.'
