Eddie McGuire Quotes
It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?
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Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.
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It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.
