Marcus Brigstocke Quotes
Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I like being unconventional.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
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Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'
