Paul O'Grady Quotes

Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

Paul O'Grady

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Start

• Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Look
  • Now

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Own

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Life
  • Service
  • My Life

• I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Stand
  • Commentator

• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Language

• I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Image
  • Super

• Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Mind
  • May
  • Day

• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • People
  • Community

• Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • People
  • Long
  • Grind

• I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Ignore

• The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

  

  Jane Addams
  • Stock

• I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

  

  Elliot Page
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fighting

• I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.

  

  Shakira
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Sexy

• I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

  

  Pamela Druckerman

• If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Attract

• Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

  

  Paul O'Grady
  • Money
  • Job
  • Place