Jilly Cooper Quotes
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
Jack Whitehall -
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
Larry J. Sabato -
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
Daniel Craig -
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
S. Jay Olshansky
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What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
Carl Lewis -
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Ralph Regula -
At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
Laura Marano -
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken -
I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
Edith Cavell
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. Murrow -
I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people. It helps the fanatics.
Joe Strummer The Clash -
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
Bertrand Russell -
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them; and therefore they are of the colour of night, that is black. And in cold countries it is just the contrary.
Leonardo da Vinci -
As an artist, I am very familiar with how to show the details, how to transform them into a language people can understand. They the government know that the Internet is a strong force, unbearable for them.
Ai Weiwei
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Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.
Bill Maher -
I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
L'Wren Scott -
Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.
Matt Besser -
I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.
Sebastiao Salgado -
I don't get a sense that your heart was in this, frankly
Chris Shays -
But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
Jilly Cooper