Daley Thompson Quotes
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.
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If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you're taking other people's opinion, you better go to Tijuana.
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Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
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I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
