Richie Benaud Quotes
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Quotes to Explore
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
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It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
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After all we have each of us only eight notes to work upon.
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El misterio apacigua mis ojos, no los ciega.
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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
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There is nothing more dangerous than security.
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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
