Richie Benaud Quotes
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
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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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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
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I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
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I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
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I'm a Nickelback guy.
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They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.
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A gap in tone is opening up between podcasts and broadcast radio. The people who produce the former know their listeners have given them permission to go deep into their subject. The people who do the latter live in fear they've already gone too far.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Millennium developed multiple schemes that cost mutual fund investors tens of millions of dollars.
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
