Margaret Thatcher Quotes

We could have stopped this, we could still do so... But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.

Margaret Thatcher

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Stupid
  • Young
  • Silly

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Years
  • More

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Want
  • Face

• There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Couple
  • Movies

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Girl

• The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Never
  • Rich

• Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Comedy
  • Play
  • Actor

• People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Money
  • Sometimes

• I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Career
  • Attention

• I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I'm always open to trying out new things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Trying
  • Always
  • New Things

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Think
  • Tears

• Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Soccer
  • Most
  • Widely

• As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Inspired

• I love London, I love the British people.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Pretty

• As a judge, I held people accountable when they did wrong. That's why I cracked down on violent criminals and stopped the big banks when they tried to kick families out of their homes.

  

  Ann Callis
  • People
  • Why
  • Judge

• If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

  

  Confucius
  • Teachers
  • Correct
  • Travelling

• We could have stopped this, we could still do so... But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.

  

  Margaret Thatcher