Ken Dodd Quotes

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Power
  • Labor

• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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  • Great
  • Best

• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  

  Sam Raimi
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  • Small
  • Courage

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• Women are amazing lovers.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Lovers

• It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Women
  • Support

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Power
  • Monster
  • Legend

• A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • People
  • Great
  • Fate

• You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • You
  • Always

• We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

  

  Ken Dodd
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