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.

Eddie McGuire

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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.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • School
  • Interesting
  • Problems

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Strong
  • Lost
  • Place

• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Maggots

• 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.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Business
  • Talking
  • Ifs

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Hate
  • Haters

• What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Giving
  • Persons
  • Liberality

• I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

  

  Deborah Levy
  • Position
  • Manners
  • Grip

• 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.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Position
  • Appropriate
  • Proposition