Winifred Holtby Quotes
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.
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I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.
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Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
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...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.
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The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
