Bill Courtney Quotes
As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
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The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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I lie when I drink and I drink a lot.
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As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
