Alistair Cooke Quotes
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I love cycling.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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I like to carry a nice bag because then I can wear t-shirts and jeans all the time!
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.
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Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
