Alastair Campbell Quotes

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

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• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Game
  • You
  • End

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Miracle
  • Gift

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Door
  • Find
  • Will

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Hand
  • Dreams
  • Bed

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Dead

• So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Leader

• When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

  

  Graham Nash
  • World
  • Kids
  • War

• I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Want

• I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Up
  • Song
  • Girl

• Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Up
  • America
  • Famous

• I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

  

  Frank Black
  • Good
  • Rock

• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Bad