Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
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• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

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• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

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• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
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• Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.

  

  Gal Gadot
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• People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Time
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• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

  

  Imelda May
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• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

  

  P. D. James
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• Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.

  

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• I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.

  

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• I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

  

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• The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

  

  George H. W. Bush

• 'I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought , so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me!'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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• There can be no doubt as to the facts as I have stated them. Orthodoxy derives from this axiomatic foundation, and the two systems are mutually reinforcing: hence each is doubly validated.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Doubt

• Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

  

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