Mark Knopfler Quotes

Last time I was sober, man I felt badWorst hangover that I ever had.It took six hamburgers and scotch all nightNicotine for breakfast just to put me right.’Cause if you wanna run cool,If you wanna run cool,If you wanna run cool, you got to runOn heavy, heavy fuel.

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Day
  • motivation

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
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  • Long
  • Ego

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Time
  • Lived
  • Montreal

• For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Service
  • Luxury

• Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Business
  • Name

• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Want

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

• I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Listen

• Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Down

• Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Great
  • Real
  • Night

• My answer to that i.e. the question of whether Ruth hoped to set a new single-season HR record was 'No.' I don't believe I can ever better my 60 mark that I made in 1927. And, frankly, I don't believe anyone else will beat it for a long time either.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Even if the economy recovers smartly for the rest of this year and the next, the ongoing slack in the economy may still lead to continuing disinflation.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • May
  • Rest
  • Economy

• Last time I was sober, man I felt badWorst hangover that I ever had.It took six hamburgers and scotch all nightNicotine for breakfast just to put me right.’Cause if you wanna run cool,If you wanna run cool,If you wanna run cool, you got to runOn heavy, heavy fuel.

  

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