Alexei Sayle Quotes

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

Alexei Sayle

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
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• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

  

  Sam Riley
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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
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• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
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• When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

  

  Gavin Bryars
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• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
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• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
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• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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• I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

  

  Kate Levering
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• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• ...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

  

  E. Lockhart
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• I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
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• I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
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• Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.

  

  Charles C. Mann
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• I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • People