Dudley North Quotes

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Pen

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Real
  • Pain

• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Who

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Competition
  • Hypocrisy

• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Same

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Cute

• I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Money
  • Desire

• Putin is like Al Capone.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Like
  • Putin
  • Al Capone

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Way
  • Best
  • Give

• I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Better
  • Result
  • Been

• I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Heart
  • Guy

• When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

  

  Ice T
  • Way
  • Best
  • Listen

• We don't think the blockchain can do most of what's been ascribed to it. But we're entering the Internet of value - and that is very much underhyped.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Value

• The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

  

  Aries Spears
  • Trying
  • Everyday

• Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

  

  Dudley North