Ricky Ponting Quotes
It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.
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Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
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I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
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Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.
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It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.
