Bob Hoskins Quotes
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
Salman Rushdie -
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
E. F. Benson -
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
Sally Field -
We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
Dambisa Moyo -
There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
Edgar Winter -
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
Jack Canfield -
I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
Taylor Momsen -
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
Walter Cronkite -
There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
Edgar Ramirez -
I could stand to lose some weight.
Larry Hogan -
A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!
Vin Scully
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
Anacharsis -
I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superman.'
David Bowie -
I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
Clayton Christensen -
Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
Emeraude Toubia -
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias Smollett
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There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.
Hillary Clinton -
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".
Anatol Rapoport -
If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
Larry Ellison -
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.
Bob Marshall -
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
Bob Hoskins