Andy Townsend Quotes

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

Andy Townsend

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• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

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• Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

  

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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• I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

  

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• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
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• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • World
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• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
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  • Grateful

• I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Successful
  • Sacrifice
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• But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • World
  • True
  • Young

• For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Time
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• Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

  

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  • Why
  • Fly
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• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

  

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• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Nature
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• How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

  

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  • You
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  • Regret

• The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

  

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• There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

  

  John Buford
  • Work
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• Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

  

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  • Best
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  • Thought

• As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

  

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  • Experience
  • Football

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

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  • Life
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• No rack can torture me, My soul ’s at liberty. Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder oneYou cannot prick with saw, Nor rend with scymitar. Two bodies therefore be; Bind one, and one will flee.The eagle of his nest No easier divest And gain the sky, Than mayest thou,Except thyself may be Thine enemy; Captivity is consciousness, So’s liberty.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • May
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• I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

  

  Andy Townsend
  • Football
  • Boring
  • Italy