Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
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• I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • More
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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
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• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Up
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• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
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  • Justice

• I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
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  • Moment

• I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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  • Movie

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
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  • Work
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• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Air

• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
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  • Movie

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Flying

• I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
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• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
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  • Way

• I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
  • Women
  • Remember

• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Power
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  • Forget

• When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

  

  Patrick Collison
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• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

  Harold Brodkey
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• Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Team
  • Design
  • Daughter

• That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

  

  Minnie Pearl
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  • Nature

• I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Small
  • Day

• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Despair

• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  

  Norman Wisdom
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