Paul Merton Quotes
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.Paul Merton
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
Taissa Farmiga -
I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
Victoria Osteen -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
Eberhard Weber -
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Jackson Pollock
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
Carl von Clausewitz -
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West -
Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
Manti Te'o -
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
Yahoo Serious -
Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
Larry Wall -
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
Maria Edgeworth
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
Jim Talent -
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
Clayton Christensen -
I do regard myself as very lucky.
David Wenham -
Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.
Martin Winterkorn -
Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.
Marcia Fudge
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.
Jesmyn Ward -
Now God killed John Lennon and he let Barry Manilow survive,But the good Lord blessed little Adrian Mitchell with the fastest cock alive.
Adrian Mitchell -
After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.
Joe Gebbia -
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle -
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
Paul Merton