Andrew Flintoff Quotes
Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
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I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.
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Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
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The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.
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Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.
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Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.
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As designers, we have a great responsibility.
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'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.
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If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
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I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be.
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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.
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Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.
