Brian Lara Quotes
It's a situation where we still have to sit and talk. It's not just my decision but I am very much interested in playing in the World Cup.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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We'd like to have this contract and this lawsuit settled. We were doing pretty good until we got to the money situation, but we've been stalled.
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It's a situation where we still have to sit and talk. It's not just my decision but I am very much interested in playing in the World Cup.
