John Scarlett Quotes

You must never underestimate your opposition.

John Scarlett

Recitation: by Male by Female

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You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.

Joanna Lumley

DayUglyWaitingStupidSmallLook

I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.

Robert Gossett

FatherUnderstandingLovingWant

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

Steven Van Zandt

WorkMePictureBig PictureNeed

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

WisdomShortAchievingAimHighLow

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

Lou Brock

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Women rule our lives, don't they?

Juan Manuel Fangio

WomenRuleOurOur LivesLives

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

Jose Rizal

TruthKnowledgeGovernmentBetter

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

Joseph Brodsky

HeartFarmerDangerousDumbKnow

I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards.

Jonathan Anderson

WarWorldCardsCraftNaivePlaying

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

Debbie Stabenow

TodayPeopleWorldAmericanHigh

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

Arnaud Desplechin

MusicArtHateYouMoviesTrue

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

DemocracyJazzSpiritIntegration

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