Louise Rennison Quotes

Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?

Louise Rennison

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Dreams
  • Dress
  • Princess

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • Him

• If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • School
  • Risk

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Space
  • Idea

• Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Want
  • Film
  • Listen

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Up
  • Team
  • Same

• I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Important
  • Business
  • Thought

• By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Government
  • Economics

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Well
  • Often

• People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • People
  • True
  • Simple

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I'll miss it,' because I owed it to the story. The story is bigger than the sum of its parts.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Team
  • Doing
  • Said

• Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Dad
  • Said
  • Missing