Alan Clark Quotes

John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.

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• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Think
  • Saying
  • Equal Pay

• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Old Age

• Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Children
  • Stop

• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Singing
  • Makeup
  • Costume

• I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that's what I will say is important about the genre.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Life
  • Politics
  • My Life

• I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Start

• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • Hair

• Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.

  

  Ovid

• I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Hope
  • Energy

• In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Gold

• My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic must awaken. The people must understand. Our safety lies in full realization the fate of the nation and the safety of the world will be decided on the western battlefront of Europe.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • People
  • World
  • War

• It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Death
  • Patience

• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Courage

• Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Learning
  • Sex

• My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Great
  • Music
  • Running

• Americans are so egocentric.

  

  Mark Kurlansky

• To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Ability
  • Discovered
  • Seek

• John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits