Richie Benaud Quotes
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
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Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
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I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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“Life is too short to spend an hour and a half on a mystery that will ultimately be solved by a cat.”
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Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker's incomparable legacy.
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Cricket is my first love.
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If we broaden the audience for cricket, more people will be interested in all forms, then TV rights and sponsors and crowds will follow.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison - father of the Constitution. Labels change and perhaps in the old tradition I would be considered one of the original Whigs. The new title I would wear today is that of Conservative, though in its original connotation the term Liberal fits me better than the original meaning of the word Conservative.
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The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
