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'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Boycott Caused Committee Could Decisions Did If I Could Make Me Nonsense People Personally Power Say Stand Started Take They Say Those Trouble Unrest Were

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I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Animal Bar Committee Could Cricket Down Drinks Feel Focused Important Make Men Necks Political Pour Them Too Up

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I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Circumstances Close Concentrate Conscious Conscious Effort Could County Effort Gluttony Half Hour Long Long Periods Longer Make Minutes Most Myself Net Nets Periods Practice Real Real Thing Reason So-Called Stay Stick Than Them Thing Time Tried Would

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How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Any Change Could Did Exactly Exactly The Same Feels How Lousy Pressure Remain Same Same Thing Schools System Then Thing Where Work Year Years Years Ago You

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The role of radiologists will evolve from doing perceptual things that could probably be done by a highly trained pigeon to doing far more cognitive things.

~Geoffrey Hinton

Topics: Cognitive Could Doing Done Evolve Far Highly More Pigeon Role Things Trained Will

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This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Adult Am Any Children Could Group Happens Mentor More Now Oh Parents Part Playing Side Started Think Who Working Wrong Wrong Side You Young Young Adults Your I Am

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I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Actor Always Amazed Could Felt Form Put Tax Thrilled

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You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

~Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Topics: Action Action Film Animated Could Film Great Humanity Inspiration Live Live Action Moved Story You

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My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

~Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Topics: Achieve Could Dreams Enjoyed Few Few Things Investing More Mother Showing Special Than Them Things Were

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The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

~Geoffrey Ward

Topics: American Black Both Could Custom Embodied Ever Female Form Hated He Him Individualism Jack Johnson Keep Knew Law Less Long Loved Male More No Law Nothing Person Purest Real Than Those Wanted Whatever White Who

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