Claudio Ranieri Quotes
They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.
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I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.
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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
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I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
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They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'
