Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.
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I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!
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The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
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Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.
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I am always running away from something.
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There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
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Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.
