Alistair Cooke Quotes
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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The American dream is under assault.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.
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I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
