Maurice Flanagan Quotes

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

Maurice Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 17, 1928 - May 7, 2015

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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

John Lahr

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The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.

John Hillcoat

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In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools.

Amanda Palmer

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The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Tony Benn

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I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tom Hanks

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I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.

Rob Dyrdek

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There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

Rotimi

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You have 15-20 years of work for that one throw, that one moment. And I was like, 'Okay, Lord, this is it - you told me I had the victory. So this is the time to show me'. And I'm going to give it all I have because this is my last throw in the Olympics.

Michelle Carter

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Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.

Dawn Richard

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Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

Colin Firth

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It's incredible to have people come up to you and tell you that you changed their life when their life was really, really dark. That you brought some light in. You also learn that it's OK to be a weirdo and not follow the rules.

Cindy Wilson

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