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I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.
- Howard E. Wasdin
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I do not want to be a player who is known for hitting those 20-odd runs.
- Ravindra Jadeja
#Hitting
#Known
#Those
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#Who
I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
- Sachin Tendulkar
#Been
#Dream
#Played
#Years
Even at home I always play with the boys, I only play with the girls when I am closer to the tournament or a series.
- Mithali Raj
#Always
#Home
#I Am
#Play
#Tournament
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
- Morton Feldman
#Built
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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
- Cole Porter
#I Love
#Love
#Paris
#Summer
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
- Gioachino Rossini
#First
#Hear
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For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
- Gian Carlo Menotti
#Better
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Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
- Peter Warlock
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I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
- Burt Bacharach
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#People
#Truth
#Wrong
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
- Carlisle Floyd
#Always
#America
#Artist
#Outsider
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
- Richard Strauss
#Audience
#Mind
#Music
#Own
#Pleasure
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
- Gyorgy Ligeti
#Budapest
#Go
#Moscow
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#Think
I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
- Arthur Schwartz
#Because
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#Gourmet
#Like
#Use
I could probably make another series of 'Phoenix Nights' or 'Max And Paddy,' but that would just feel like a safe bet.
- Peter Kay
#Bet
#Feel
#Just
#Make
#Safe
There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.
- Ronnie Barker
#Man
#Performance
#Sea
#Strange
#Triangle
I like anything with Zak Bagans and ghost hunters.
- Joel McHale
#Anything
#Ghost
#Hunters
#Like
The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called 'Camping with Barry White Night.'
- Bobcat Goldthwait
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#Night
#Show
#Time
#White
I think Russell Brand's books should be criticised for being rubbish - but it is true that there's a professional class of opinion-former who has a financial interest in their job not being taken away.
- Stewart Lee
#Financial
#Job
#Professional
#True
#Who
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
- Gallagher
#American
#City
#Idiots
#Me
#Surprise
When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.
- Steve Alford
#Dad
#Game
#He
#Me
#Time
Your strengths have to stand out. Your strengths have to be perfected.
- Brad Stevens
#Out
#Stand
#Strengths
#Your
A very good leader is someone who has a great team, it's all about the team. You only have 12 hours or 14 hours a day, if the people that are with you are doing a great job, you can have a great business. If not, it's not going to work.
- Patrick Mouratoglou
#Business
#Day
#Good
#Great
#Work
At Tennessee, I said I can't wait to beat Florida in the Swamp and sing 'Rocky Top' all night long. The thing at Tennessee I felt was that there needed to be energy in the program immediately. Two of the last three years there, they were 5-7. Urban Meyer and Nick Saban were at all-time highs. I felt like the fan base and players needed confidence.
- Lane Kiffin
#Confidence
#Energy
#Long
#Night
#Wait
I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.
- Jim Boeheim
#Always
#Get
#Life
#Overcome
#Things
I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.
- Tony La Russa
#Character
#Club
#Great
#Me
#Talent
A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.'
- Kirby Smart
#Best
#Country
#Motto
#People
#Red
I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
- Dan Devine
#Coach
#Going
#Head
#Next
#Notre Dame
A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
- Andy Pick
#Chance
#Cricket
#High
#Tree
#World
They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.
- Bill Laimbeer
#Defense
#Points
#Quarters
#Solid
#Three
It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.
- Mike Tice
#Anyone
#Great
#Lose
#Rivalry
#Shame
The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
- Stu Jackson
#Always
#Basketball
#Check
#Hand
#Pro
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
- J. I. Packer
#Life
#Me
#Prayer
#Sin
#Spirit
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
- Francis J. Grimke
#Good
#How
#Man
#Religion
#Test
I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church'... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.
- Robert A. Schuller
#Church
#Feel
#Power
#Step
#Understanding
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
- John Newton
#Gently
#God
#Gradually
#Most
#Part
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Dominique Pire
#Bridges
#Build
#Enough
#Men
#Walls
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound.
- Seung Sahn
#Nature
#Self
#Sound
#True
#Voice
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
- John Nelson Darby
#Accomplished
#Before
#Salvation
#Though
The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.
- Roy Yamaguchi
#Best
#Flame
#Iron
#Open
#Way
I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.
- Sirio Maccioni
#Everyone
#Famous
#Morning
#Restaurant
I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
- April Bloomfield
#Good
#Hotel
#Progress
#Teachers
#Work
I want to know what my food has been eating.
- Masa Takayama
#Been
#Eating
#Food
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#Want
I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.
- Heston Blumenthal
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#Due
#Effort
#Failed
#Lack
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
#Belief
#Human
#Kindness
#People
#Result
We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.
- Frank James
#Buy
#Enough
#Get
#Little
#Money
Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
- Red Barber
#Bunny
#Fire
#Like
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#Tail
I love animals. I'm a big animal lover.
- Camille Grammer
#Animal Lover
#Animal
#Animals
#Big
#Love
People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.
- Gennifer Flowers
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#People
#Power
#Well
#Wonderful
Time means nothing to me.
- Lilly Pulitzer
#Me
#Means
#Nothing
#Time
But I don't hold grudges.
- Brandi Glanville
#Grudges
#Hold
But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.
- Judge Mills Lane
#Believe
#Direction
#I Believe
#Society
I've watched us go out on penalties so often. I really thought we'd make it at Euro '96, especially after Gazza's goal against Scotland. I still go to every England game as a spectator.
- John Motson
#Against
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#Go
#Thought
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I'm so public about my love life I'm really not trying to hide anything.
- Georgia Toffolo
#Hide
#Life
#Love Life
#Love
#Trying
I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.
- Roz Chast
#Born
#Handwriting
#People
#Style
#Think
Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
- Walt Handelsman
#Cartoons
#Different
#Editorial
#Static
'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.
- Bryan Lee O'Malley
#About
#Before
#Guess
#Know
#People
In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
- Box Brown
#Best
#Circumstances
#Extraordinary
#Life
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
- Ben Katchor
#Art
#Know
#People
#Sometimes
#Words
Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.
- Dan DeCarlo
#Book
#Day
#Father
#See
#Two
The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer.
- Judy Horacek
#Earth
#Live
#Living
#Way
#Why
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
- Alison Bechdel
#Hard
#Just
#Myself
#Spirit
#Work
Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
- Caroll Spinney
#Big
#Bird
#Character
#Children
#Human
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
- Jhonen Vasquez
#Book
#Drive
#Enough
#Far
#Home
You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.
- Seth
#Busy
#End
#Fast
#Look
#Time
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
- Dave Sim
#Audience
#Comfortable
#Like
#See
#Write
I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
- Walt Handelsman
#Days
#Laugh
#Nice
#Right
#Stomach
When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
- Bryan Lee O'Malley
#Culture
#Dark
#Real
#Turn
#World
I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
- Jeffrey Brown
#Always
#Artist
#First
#Service
#Writing
SingTel has made substantial investments in markets with high growth potential in South Asia, such as India and Bangladesh.
- Chua Sock Koong
#Bangladesh
#Growth
#High
#Potential
You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
- Cynthia Carroll
#American
#Desire
#Support
#Vision
#Women
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
- Joan Blades
#Believe
#I Believe
#Mother
#News
#Power
Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.
- Sara Davies
#I Am
#Proud
#Roots
#Someone
#Way
Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'
- Angela Braly
#Care
#Health Care
#Health
#Politics
I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.
- Katie Jacobs Stanton
#Air Force
#Air
#Force
#Pilot
#Wanted
As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
- Desiree Rogers
#Events
#Host
#Lady
#Social
#Together
Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
- Mitchell Baker
#Great
#Long
#See
#Tools
#Way
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#Cooks
#Creativity
#Involved
#Number
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
- Sandra Lerner
#Always
#Like
#Look
#People
#Washington
My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.
- Brenda Brathwaite
#Enough
#Find
#Gender
#Growing Up
#Women
When I started in e-commerce, there was not a lot of clutter because there were not a lot of companies. Nowadays, you have to have a pretty serious moat around your business to compete with Amazon, Wal-Mart, and even Alibaba online.
- Julie Wainwright
#Business
#E-Commerce
#Online
#Serious
I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
- Dawn Steel
#Good
#Great
#Me
#Teacher
#Tell
I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger than that.
- Geisha Williams
#Bigger
#Could
#Something
#Than
#Thinking
I can't do any competitive sport myself!
- Samantha Cameron
#Any
#Competitive
#Myself
#Sport
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
- Wilbur Ross
#Banking
#Industry
#Things
#World
#Would
I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.
- Garrett Camp
#Art
#Internet
#Search Engine
#Search
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#Believe
#Israel
#Many
#Rumors
#Security
Long live your laundry!
- Billy Mays
#Laundry
#Live
#Long
#Your
I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
- Manny Pacquiao
#Best
#Doing
#Happy
#Job
#People
I love a challenge.
- Luke Campbell
#Challenge
#I Love
#Love
I got speed and power. I got two things. And I've all the other aspects of boxing.
- Ryan Garcia
#Boxing
#Power
#Speed
#Things
#Two
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
#Dad
#Discipline
#Father
#Nice
#Person
Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.
- George Foreman
#Best
#Better
#Name
#Shot
#Something
Not only am I at a decent fighting weight already, I don't let myself balloon anymore. I let myself get up to 280, 290 before. I can't believe I let myself do that.
- Chris Arreola
#Believe
#Decent
#Fighting
#Myself
#Up
I can punch, I'm heavy-handed, and I can box.
- Rocky Fielding
#Box
#Heavy-Handed
#I Can
#Punch
Canelo, let's get it on. I've been beating these guys. Where's Canelo? Where's Triple G?
- Demetrius Andrade
#Beating
#Been
#Get
#Guys
#Triple
Houston deserves a champion, and I want them to know they have one in Jermall Charlo.
- Jermall Charlo
#Champion
#Houston
#Know
#Them
#Want
I always pray for my opponent to have safe care and make it to the fight healthy.
- Jermell Charlo
#Always
#Care
#Fight
#Opponent
#Safe
I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty boy. That's how I got into boxing.
- James DeGale
#Boy
#Gang
#Naughty
#Prison
#Real
That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it's in the back of my mind. It's important to get out at the right time.
- Carl Frampton
#Back
#Important
#Mind
#Right Time
#Time
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.
- Evander Holyfield
#Fear
#Fight
#Heart
#Life
#Me
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