Cecil Purdy (Cecil John Seddon Purdy) Quotes
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
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You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
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I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'
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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
