Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.

Jeremy Corbyn

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• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Everyone
  • Fail

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Work
  • Day
  • Cool

• It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Different
  • Real
  • Together

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Presence is more than just being there.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • More
  • Presence
  • Being There

• Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Flower

• I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Think
  • Food

• So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing —Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Done
  • Soul

• Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Two ideas in his head at once would constitute an unlawful assembly.

  

  Addison Mizner

• After what I've been through, I'd rather die than take drugs again.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Die

• Mutterings and murmurs, mingling with the rumours of glory, gave rise to fears of an indecisive battle, a precipitate retreat. Insolent voices gave out that a spirit of the lowest category, a guardian angel, the insignificant Arcade, had checked and routed the dazzling host of the three great archangels.

  

  Anatole France
  • Great
  • Angel

• I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • People
  • Work
  • Wish

• When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. It's not a humanitarian thing, because I don't see it as a sacrifice. It's a gift. We're all lucky to have each other.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Parents

• As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Habit

• Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Chinese

• You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn