Alex Ferguson Quotes
Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.
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It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
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For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.
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The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
