Johnny Vegas Quotes

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

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• The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • Strong
  • Church

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Career
  • Teacher
  • Leadership

• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Aging

• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Want
  • Know
  • Old

• But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Why
  • Control
  • Thought

• When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Try

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.

  

  Ovid

• Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reality
  • Positive
  • Aesthetic

• On the Coast of CoromandelWhere the early pumpkins blow,In the middle of the woodsLived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.Two old chairs, and half a candle,-One old jug without a handle,-These were all his worldly goods.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Blow

• Wear your love like heaven.

  

  Donovan
  • Heaven

• Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Humanity

• A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

  

  Jacques Dubochet
  • Alone
  • Effort

• As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

  

  Anthony A. Williams

• A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Done
  • Song
  • Listening

• Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Reality
  • Hand

• I cherish the relationships and friendships I have with the people in my life and take every opportunity I have to make time for them.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

  

  Johnny Vegas