Taron Egerton Quotes

I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

Taron Egerton

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • College
  • New

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Confidence
  • Building
  • Just

• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth
  • End
  • Tell

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• It's not my style to judge anybody.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Style
  • Judge
  • Anybody

• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Day

• When I come up with a melody in my head, it could be anywhere: in the shower, on the plane, in bed - often when I'm on the go. I'll record it on my phone with my own voice, humming. When I get to the studio, I check which melodies work.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Up
  • Real

• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fear

• There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Life
  • Country
  • Question

• I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Hand