Linford Christie Quotes

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

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• I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Character
  • True
  • Story

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Love
  • Think
  • Being There

• I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Want

• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Rights
  • Flow

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Trust
  • Always
  • Obedience

• It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Selfish

• I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Industry
  • Image

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Food

• The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Faith
  • Law

• I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Bike

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Animals

• I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Jump

• It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Choices
  • Born
  • Half

• Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Job
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge

• You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Man
  • Mushroom

• I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Men
  • School
  • High

• But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

  

  Linford Christie