Garth Crooks Quotes
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
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I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini.
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We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.
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As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
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I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I was really disappointed coming off that Ashes series.
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That showed a total lack of disrespect from the player.
