Petula Clark Quotes

I am not really a reminiscing type person. I am not nostalgic at all.

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• My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Idea
  • Genius
  • Twisted

• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Age
  • Never
  • Certain

• My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Success
  • Wine

• I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Girl
  • Eyes
  • Look

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Movies
  • Nothing
  • Run

• Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Today
  • Economy
  • Tomorrow

• I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Independent
  • Movies
  • New

• When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Trust

• All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Support

• There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Life
  • Good
  • Democracy

• All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Control
  • Value

• Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Light

• I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Time
  • She
  • Girl

• Hold the door, say please, say thank you.Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie.I know you got mountains to climb, but always stay humble and kind.When the dreams you're dreamin' come to you.When the work you put in is realized.Let yourself feel the pride, but always stay humble and kind.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Work
  • Door
  • Pride

• When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sun
  • Flowers
  • Perfume

• Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

  

  Fred Allen
  • God
  • Movie
  • Church

• I am not really a reminiscing type person. I am not nostalgic at all.

  

  Petula Clark