Barry Sheene Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
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Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
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Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
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I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
