Alexei Sayle Quotes

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Service

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Hand
  • Looking

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Dream
  • Thought
  • Leader

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Train

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

  

  John Strachan
  • People
  • Church
  • Christian

• The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.

  

  Asa Larsson
  • People
  • Rest

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

  

  James Lankford
  • Different
  • Color

• Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • People