Charles Finch Quotes
Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.
Quotes to Explore
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
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I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
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革命不是請客吃飯，不是做文章，不是繪畫繡花，不能那樣雅致，那樣從容不迫，文質彬彬，那樣溫良恭儉讓。革命是暴動，是一個階級推翻一個階級的暴烈的行動。
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
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I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.
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The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
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But I can't remember who is in my CD player now.
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Make mistakes, make shit break. Those are the little things you remember. No-one remembers a smooth gig.
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Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.
