Alison Moyet Quotes

I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.

Alison Moyet

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• September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Life
  • History
  • Day

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• I do find acting cathartic.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Acting
  • Find
  • Cathartic

• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • America
  • History

• I'm not interested in disposable music.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Music
  • Not Interested

• There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Peace
  • Universe

• Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Country
  • Hands

• I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Fame
  • Hated

• The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)

  

  Victor Borge
  • Smile
  • Distance

• All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Christian

• If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I’m sorry if that inconveniences you.

  

  Tad Williams
  • War
  • Sorry

• I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money." My dad said, "Because I have an obligation to give back." I always admired him for that.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Moving

• The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

  

  Sigmar Polke
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Definition

• I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

  

  Martin Freeman

• Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Companies
  • Speculation
  • Oil stock

• A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Spirit
  • Keep
  • Suffer

• I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.

  

  Alison Moyet