Alexei Sayle Quotes

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

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• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
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• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
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• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
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• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
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• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
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• Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

  

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• Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

  

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• There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

  

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• Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Work
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• [My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.

  

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• I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • People
  • Up
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• The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spirit
  • Ego
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• After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

  

  Matthew Perry

• Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • May
  • Space