Jim Broadbent Quotes
People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.Jim Broadbent
Quotes to Explore
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt -
I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
Malin Akerman -
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Barry Humphries -
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
Larry Ellison -
Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
Wang Jianlin -
I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey -
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White -
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
Abraham Lincoln
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
Karl Malone -
I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
Lara Logan -
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison -
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
Felix de Weldon
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
Colleen Haskell -
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
Laura Prepon -
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
Alex Berenson -
Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.
Elayne Boosler -
There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
Ogden Nash -
People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.
Jim Broadbent