Richie Benaud Quotes
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
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For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live.
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Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
