Ian Dury Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
-
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
-
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
-
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
-
The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
-
I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.
-
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
-
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
-
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
-
It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
-
Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
-
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
-
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
-
I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
-
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
-
I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
-
'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
-
Look for and find the really good horses in your organization and run them hard. Push them and challenge them with greater levels of responsibility.
-
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
-
[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.
-
'Spasticus Autisticus', On Countdown (Australia) 1981
