Ken Dodd Quotes

You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

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• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Man
  • Dream
  • Dark

• I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Stock
  • Data

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Business
  • Pretty

• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Temptation

• We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Business
  • Want
  • Audience

• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Age

• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
  • Loser
  • Tombstone

• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Get

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • American
  • Stop

• Wrong is for other people.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Other

• The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.

  

  Barbara Crossette
  • Poverty
  • Jobs
  • Chaos

• You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Work
  • Diversity

• You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

  

  Ken Dodd
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