Tommy Cooper Quotes
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
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Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.
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Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.
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All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.
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“Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.”
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If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.
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You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.
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Belief is a luxury – only those who have real knowledge have a right to believe; otherwise belief is merely plausible opinion.
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As I told the kids on the way home, this conference is tough. We have to build mental as well as physical toughness to be competitive.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.
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To laugh is to live profoundly.
