Ferdinand Mount Quotes
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.Ferdinand Mount
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
Jack McBrayer -
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May -
I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
Dan Marino -
My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap -
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
Madeline Carroll -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West -
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Mahmoud Abbas -
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis -
I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
Zach LaVine
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
Federica Montseny -
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren -
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
Frances McDormand -
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci -
Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
Larry Hagman
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Fidel Castro -
I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
Emily Ratajkowski -
I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
Roberta Flack -
I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
Lady Gaga -
In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically.
James Bobin -
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Ferdinand Mount