"Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time."

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Source : Interview with Tom Stacey for the Daily Express, as quoted in "The Independent", July 11, 2003.

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

#Waste Quotes #Wasting Time Quotes

“I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.”
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
“We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay. Do you know why? Because we wanted them to know that they were about to get boned in the ass.”
“Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.”
“Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.”
“Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.”
“The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.”
“They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.”

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