Alistair Cooke Quotes
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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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Size is a double-edged sword with great advantages and disadvantages..
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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
