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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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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We feel fortunate that we're in a position where we're looking down on the Miami Heat. Half-a-game lead. In a way, I'm surprised. And yet, we've got nothing to crow about.
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
