Dudley Moore Quotes

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

Dudley Moore

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• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
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• I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
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• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  

  Malcolm X
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• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
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• So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

  

  Raekwon
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• For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

  

  Warren Moon
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• A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.

  

  Nathan Kress
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• When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.

  

  Wendy Davis
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• Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

  

  Rainey Qualley
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• We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life

• If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

  

  Olaus Murie
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• See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

  

  Edwin Muir
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• I have the purest intent when it comes to love. But it doesn't always work out that way. That's the truth. But you know, it's still pretty fun when you're in the moment.

  

  Anderson East
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• But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

  

  Reed Hastings
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• In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Women
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  • Poverty

• I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

  

  Dudley Moore