Kenneth Williams Quotes

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Kenneth Williams

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

  Gary Webb
  • Life
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Patience
  • Grow
  • Beard

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Real
  • Business
  • Know

• Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

  

  Poppy Montgomery
  • Women
  • Family

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Good
  • Me
  • Comfortable

• When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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  • Work
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• In the startup work environment, you get to have a relationship with your boss, the investors, and the key members of the team. Startups are like families - you see the good, the bad and the ugly, but in the end, you've got each other's back.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

  

  Kenneth Williams
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