Jeremy Paxman Quotes
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?Jeremy Paxman
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
Harold Simmons -
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
Laura Moser -
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
Barbara Mikulski
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
Felicity Kendal -
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy -
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison -
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Lady Gaga -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
Kate Christensen -
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. Joshi -
Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
Zac Efron -
I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
Washed Out -
When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
Jack O'Brien
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
Yolandi Visser -
When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!
Amy Lee Evanescence -
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin -
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
Jeremy Paxman