Linford Christie Quotes
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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I think penguins are cute.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.
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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.
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But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
