Jonny Wilkinson Quotes

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Losing
  • Despair

• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Mobile Phones

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Love
  • Done
  • See

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Together
  • Political

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Opportunity

• I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Pity

• The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

  

  Hannah More
  • May
  • Think
  • Bread

• He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Up
  • Important
  • Mom

• I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • People
  • Fear