Polly Toynbee Quotes
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.Polly Toynbee
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
Kate Smith -
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson -
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
Tadashi Yanai -
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
P. J. Harvey -
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart -
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
Taylor Sheridan -
I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
Salma Hayek -
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot -
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Barry Diller -
I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
Zach Galifianakis
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
Osric Chau -
Women are always beautiful.
Ville Valo HIM -
A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.
Natalie Cole -
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
Rachel Boston -
I'm a country girl at heart.
Kaley Cuoco -
At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover -
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
Adam Braun -
Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.
Paul Lieberstein -
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Polly Toynbee