Katherine Parkinson Quotes

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
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  • Freedom
  • Attention

• As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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  • Freedom
  • Loss

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Industrial

• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
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• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
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• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
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• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
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• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
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• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
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• I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Choices
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• The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
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  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.

  

  Mario Van Peebles
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• I would never be into splitting up. I don't think we should ever break up, I really don't. I think we should allow each person to do things individually - go off and have a baby, lie on the beach, whatever - but still remain Girls Aloud.

  

  Nadine Coyle
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  • Baby
  • Beach

• The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

  

  Cynthia McKinney
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  • Technology
  • Military

• I was already set for life when I met her.

  

  David Gest
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• But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
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  • Sisterhood

• I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.

  

  Katherine Parkinson
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