Richie Benaud Quotes
The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
Quotes to Explore
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
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I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.
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I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.
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Slow and steady wins the race.
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Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.
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I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.
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Our generation people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!
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A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
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The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
