Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes
I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
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The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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I think that if you use the so-called 'strong words' you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.
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I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
