Cilla Black Quotes
I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
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Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic.
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Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
