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John E. Walker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.”
-- John E. Walker

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“In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.”
-- John E. Walker

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“In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.”
-- John E. Walker

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“My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.”
-- John E. Walker

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“One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.”
“A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence”
“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”
“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”
“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing”
“A boat can't have two captains.”
“Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.”
“I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!”

Source : "Octomom Talks Reality Show, Dough & Donor" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.eonline.com. April 8, 2009.
“It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.”
“You are the captain of your ship that never comes in”

John E. Walker quotes

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