Paul Merton Quotes
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Taslima Nasrin -
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
Adam Brody -
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey -
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
Forest Whitaker -
It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
Val McDermid
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
Karen Traviss -
I've had such an odd career.
Sally Field -
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see - I think that is enough to say about them...
Margaret Fuller -
More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.
Jerome Powell
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Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.
Jerome Powell -
Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
Jason Fried -
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
David Mamet -
Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.
Bob Newhart -
My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.
Jason Bateman
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I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.
Jimmy Iovine -
Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.
Eloisa James -
I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.
Kathy Griffin -
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka -
I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.
Paul Merton