Daley Thompson Quotes
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.
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Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
