Calvin Ayre (Calvin Edward Ayre) Quotes

Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

Calvin Ayre

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• I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

  Randy Lerner
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• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
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• I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Like
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• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
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• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
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• Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

  

  Quintilian
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  • Alone
  • Loved

• I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• Joy is the best makeup.

  

  Anne Lamott
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  Cristiano Ronaldo

• Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

  

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• You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a lot of money off of players. You don't get a free education: you work full-time year round for five years for an education you could pay for three times over if you just got your market value.

  

  Chris Borland
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• It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

  

  Elvis Duran
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• Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Writing
  • Age

• Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Wise