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Alan Parsons I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
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Alain Prost So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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Alain Prost I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.
sports winning thinking
Alain Prost When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
sports thinking throwing
Al Oerter I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
sports team hate
Al Michaels I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
sports vanity play
Al Michaels It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.
sports believe miracle
Al Michaels Do you believe in miracles?
mistake ends chains
Charles Stross Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Charles Spurgeon Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake thinking saving
Charles Spurgeon Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
mistake military iraq
Alan Grayson U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.
mistake made ifs
Alan Greenspan If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
mistake successful careers
Alan Greenspan People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
mistake self made
Alan Greenspan I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,
mistake thinking different
Alain Prost Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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Al Neuharth When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
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Charles Caleb Colton There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
two iron gold
Charles Caleb Colton There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
Charles Caleb Colton If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two people way
Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two small-changes society
Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
two people tea
Charles Dickens The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
two kind lawyer
Charles Dickens Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
two crap learners
Charles Stross I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .
two priorities world
Charles Stanley To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.