Billy Connolly Quotes
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Drugs scared me.
Larry David -
For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
Get there first with the most.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
Victoria Pendleton -
There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
Kate Reardon
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater -
Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
Carine Roitfeld -
You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.
Laura Dern -
My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand -
Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the - the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence - and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.
Rahm Emanuel
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I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
Felicia Day -
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.
Malcolm X -
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller -
This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
Andrew Marvell -
The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.
Antonin Scalia -
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason Cooley
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
Luigi Pirandello -
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy -
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe -
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
Mary Harris Jones -
It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.
Chet Baker -
Don't vote, it just encourages them.
Billy Connolly