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We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a… — Unknown Author
...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over Â£650 million worth of energy and nearly… — David Cameron
I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby. — Dick Trickle
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in… — Mac Davis
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live… — Nikki Sixx
I only stayed because you turned the lights out. — Unknown Author
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
This is quite difficult 'cause I have a really flat head, and so it's quite difficult to get a correct angle. And you can't go… — Robert Pattinson
[School reports] were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but… — Robert Pattinson
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but… — Paul Tibbets
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building… — Barack Obama
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that… — Kurt Vonnegut
The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has… — Newt Gingrich
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. — Eddie Cantor

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