Coco Chanel Quotes

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Right
  • Possession
  • Smiling

• Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Leader

• There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Society
  • Day
  • Government

• My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Age
  • Today
  • Step

• Get it out of your historic head.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Head
  • Out
  • Your

• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
  • Rascals

• I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a movie with a girl.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Home
  • Movie
  • Girl

• There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Interesting
  • Dad
  • Moments

• there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Waiting
  • Silent
  • Noise

• I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Care

• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Chaos
  • Forgotten

• I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Englishman
  • Scotsman

• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Patriotism
  • Optimist
  • Nationalism

• Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Problem
  • Project
  • Ruptures

• What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Patriotism
  • Refuge
  • Englishman