Alison Moyet Quotes

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

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• Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Food
  • Practice
  • Clear

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

  

  Om Puri
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Significance

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

  

  Imran Amed
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Watch
  • Press

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Business
  • Conservative
  • Enterprise

• It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Up
  • World
  • Father

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Sacrifice
  • Wealth
  • Possible

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • Important
  • Education

• I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • God
  • Home
  • Help

• Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Life
  • American

• Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Power
  • Boyfriend

• The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Control