Billy Connolly Quotes
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.Billy Connolly
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz -
It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
Manika -
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
Jack Nicholson -
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North -
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
Tamsin Greig -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
I love rock n' rollers.
Carlene Carter -
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
Lady Gregory -
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
Eckhart Tolle -
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
Rahul Kohli
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Nadia Giosia -
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Barbara Demick -
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo -
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
Orlando Bloom -
It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
Daniel Cormier -
If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
Adam Ferrara
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
Lance Ito -
You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.
Olivia Wilde -
When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better? … If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.
John Lancaster Spalding -
I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.
Mary Kom -
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
Donella Meadows -
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
Billy Connolly