Craig Armstrong Quotes

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

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• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Science
  • Change

• The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Time
  • Military
  • Problems

• The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Words
  • Nothing

• There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Standards
  • Promises

• 'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Done
  • Walking

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Success
  • Free
  • Difficult

• The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Music
  • Death
  • Thing

• When he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Done
  • Fly

• I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Life
  • Listening

• My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Guy

• The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

  

  John Grant
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Mother
  • Marriage

• Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • People
  • Focus

• The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense...

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Integrity
  • Writers
  • Nonsense

• Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

  

  Craig Armstrong