Eddie McGuire Quotes
If anyone thought it was an appropriate position or proposition to put to me, then I'd have a good, long, hard think about it.
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I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.
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Once a maggot, always a maggot.
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Alex has got toughness about him. It's just that you spend so much time trying to find out what other people want, as opposed to doing what you got to do. You're trying to please everybody and do what everybody expects you to do. And the thing is, they ain't under the same gun.
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If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.
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I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
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I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.
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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
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Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.
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If anyone thought it was an appropriate position or proposition to put to me, then I'd have a good, long, hard think about it.
