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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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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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
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Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
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Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
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In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
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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.
