Alan Bates Quotes

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Think
  • Always
  • Anchor

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Lost

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Important
  • Power
  • New

• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Up
  • Years
  • Look

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Chinese

• Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • World
  • Family
  • Education

• People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

  

  Alan Bates
  • People