Anton du Beke Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.
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It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.
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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
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I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.
