Jeffrey Bernard Quotes
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.Jeffrey Bernard
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
Nancy Lublin -
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
Katey Sagal -
Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
Earl Weaver -
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
Irvine Welsh -
Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
Gary Lineker -
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler -
I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
Baba Kalyani -
If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
Oscar Peterson -
Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
Gary Herbert -
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
Rachel Cusk
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The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
Carlos Slim -
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I always talk about my characters like they're real people.
Dakota Fanning -
I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.
Patch Adams -
Invida fatorum series summisque negatumstare diu nimioque graves sub pondere lapsusnec se Roma ferens.
Lucan -
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.
Morrissey The Smiths
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Trash is something you get rid of-or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.
Lana Turner -
There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
Norman Vincent Peale -
And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes
Emily Dickinson -
He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
Orson Scott Card -
I do like some of the perks, like being, recognized, especially if I've had my makeup done and I'm going to be photographed and people admire me. Who wouldn't like that?
Jane Pauley -
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard