Garfield Sobers Quotes

My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'

Garfield Sobers

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Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Andrew Mellon

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Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

John Dickerson

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No matter what a guy says, if he shows up at all the places you're at, he's hooked.

John Krasinski

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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Simon Armitage

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In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Tony Buzan

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

Lisa Vanderpump

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Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

Chuck Todd

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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

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I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

Pramila Jayapal

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Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.

Nick Sagan

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Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'

Kyle Kinane

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