Denis Healey Quotes

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Denis Healey

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• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Women
  • Think
  • Movement

• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Lifetime
  • Foot
  • Tibet

• I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Moments

• I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Movie

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Myself
  • Risk
  • Doing

• I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
  • Prepare

• Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Much
  • Than

• I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Same

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Want
  • Risk

• We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Forget
  • Brutal
  • Middle Ages

• It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Time
  • Done
  • Government

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Explaining
  • Theologians

• But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sport
  • Publisher
  • Dearth

• Coach Williams told us from day one that we can do what no one expects us to do, that we can be the darlings of America.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Coach
  • Expects
  • Darlings

• No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • People
  • Wish
  • Lucky

• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak

  

  Denis Healey