Lynn Davies Quotes

Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

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• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

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• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

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• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

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• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

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• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  

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• You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

  

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• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

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• I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

  

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• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

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• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

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• I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

  

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• As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

  

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• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

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• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

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• Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.

  

  Lynn Davies
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