Ricky Ponting Quotes
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.
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Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
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The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.
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The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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I like to find characters. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
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My friend is having a wedding and I have to sing happy birthday... no, wait! You don't sing happy birthday at a wedding!!!
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Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.
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Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.
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There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.
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So this is how it is to be done. It is clear that in the Ostmark, the eastern region of the Reich, objects are now to be handled with care. Every silver candlestick is to be weighed. Every fork and spoon is to be counted. Every vitrine is to be opened. The marks on the base of every porcelain figure will be noted. A scholarly question mark is be appended to a description of an Old Master drawing; the dimensions of a picture will be measured correctly. And while this is going on, their erstwhile owners are having their ribs broken and teeth knocked out.
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It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
