John Mortimer Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
Garry Marshall -
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie -
When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
Aaron Neville -
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
Dan Rosensweig -
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
Daniel Gillies
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
Octavia Spencer -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton -
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
Pamela Meyer -
When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
J. B. Pritzker -
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
S. Jay Olshansky
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King -
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Patrice O'Neal -
I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
Karl Marlantes -
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West -
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
R. C. Sproul -
The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.
Louise Erdrich -
Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.
Demetri Martin -
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.
Jacob Weisberg -
‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’
Betty Smith -
There is always time for failure.
John Mortimer