Geoff Capes Quotes
Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
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I like to have bright colors and to feel feminine on the court.
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I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.
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My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
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Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
