William Cobbett Quotes

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

William Cobbett

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• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

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• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

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• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

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• Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

  

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

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• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

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• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

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• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

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• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

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• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

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• I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

  

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• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

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• All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

  

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• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

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• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

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• It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

  

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• If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

  

  William Cobbett
  • People
  • America
  • Might