David Irving Quotes

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• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • True
  • Mathematics

• My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • World
  • Book
  • Favourite

• It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Me
  • Purpose

• As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Early
  • 20th Century

• I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Independent
  • Looking
  • Well

• We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Simple
  • Embrace
  • Detail

• I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Reading
  • Always
  • Biographies

• All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Opinions

• Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Design

• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Bond

• Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Going

• I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Earth

• I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Teen

• There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

  

  Louise Leakey
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

  

  David Irving