Eddy Merckx Quotes
Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
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Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
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The learner is the key entity and occupies the nucleus of the systems complex of education.
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That’s my credo - My work is play. I don’t complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and you’re so doggone tired, you’re just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.
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I go through my comments sometimes, and I'll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends. I know it's horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day.
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Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
