Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

I am vegetarian. … I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.

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• I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Used

• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• To me, my business is my life.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Political
  • Challenge
  • Find

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Goals
  • Impossible
  • Miracle

• What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Taken
  • Force
  • Only

• Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Stop
  • Very
  • Become

• I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Morning

• The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Simple

• When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • World

• A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Up
  • Mother
  • High

• Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Worry

• Here sits the UnicornIn captivity,Yet free.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Free
  • Here
  • Captivity

• Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Learning
  • Dance

• I've got six brothers, so I grew up with all boys, then I moved in with three girls, and the differences were incredible. Living in a very feminine house threw me a bit. The bathroom was unbelievable; it was like a chemist's.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Up
  • House

• Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Up
  • Dark

• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature

• I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • School
  • Path
  • Succeed

• I am vegetarian. … I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn