Alistair Cooke Quotes
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I ain't no angel, I still got a few more dances with the devil.I'm cleaning up my act little by little.I'm getting there. I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see.I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.
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There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
