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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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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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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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
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I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven't seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty.
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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
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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.
