Nigel Rees Quotes

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

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• I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Woman

• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I had long hair when I was a teenager.

  

  Beck
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Teenager

• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Successful
  • Problems
  • Lucky

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Better
  • Laws
  • Legal

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Look

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Character
  • Truth
  • True

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • New

• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• The small objects belonging to the dead became part of the household. I did not feel that it was theft as their owners hadn’t really gone away.

  

  Brian Masters
  • Dead
  • Objects
  • Household

• Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Politics
  • Vocation
  • Hobby

• Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Politics

• It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

  

  Nigel Rees
  • Politics
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