Kenneth Clarke Quotes

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
  • Know
  • Alone

• Be candid with everyone.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Everyone
  • Candid

• Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Movie
  • Like

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Sharing

• Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Done
  • Me

• It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • You
  • Community
  • Kind

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Temptation
  • Stand
  • Liberal

• All the media are horrible.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Media
  • Horrible

• There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Today
  • Question
  • Value

• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Him

• I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and modeling before, when I was a kid, so it would be nice to use those things.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Nice
  • Movies
  • Delve

• I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Change
  • Decision
  • Honor

• Online, you play at being yourself.

  

  Charlie Brooker

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • God
  • She

• It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Up
  • Small
  • Cute

• I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Jokes

• My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

  

  Kenneth Clarke