Mark Knopfler Quotes

You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory.Well the word is out and I learned.I got the latest side of the story:You're pulling out before you get burned.

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• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Student

• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• It'll seem convenient 'cause I am ambassador for the charity, but Look Good Feel Better launched a set of makeup brushes through Priceline, and I use the multi-tasking brush to apply my liquid foundation. It's wonderful. As good as the Bobbi Brown Full Coverage Face brush, which I also use.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Makeup
  • Charity
  • Ambassador

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Work
  • Society
  • Cats

• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Country
  • Political
  • Support

• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Game
  • Water
  • Boy

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Charity
  • Legal

• Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Birds
  • Produces

• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  

  Mae West
  • She
  • Success
  • Girl

• I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Movie
  • Voice
  • Rain

• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Religion

• For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • School
  • Drama

• To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

  

  Vicomte Delaunay
  • Joy
  • Heaven
  • Fire

• I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

  

  Joan Fontaine
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Die

• For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Technology
  • Moral

• You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory.Well the word is out and I learned.I got the latest side of the story:You're pulling out before you get burned.

  

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