Lynn Davies Quotes
I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.
