Daley Thompson Quotes
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.
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I am Providence.
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I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.
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Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.
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Now that the House of Commons has declared itself, we shall take our case to the country.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
