John Spratt Quotes

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

John Spratt

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WarPartnerKingdomCostOwnUs

I'm an introverted extrovert. My job sets me apart, but I'm not hammy and don't need attention.

Jeremy Scott

JobMeAttentionNeedExtrovert

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

Jena Malone

YouProfessionalPersonalActorYour

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

John Fogerty

GoodPeopleRock And RollKindRock

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

Michael De Luca

KidAthleticReally

The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.

Michael Dirda

UglyMeDownPageKindLine

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

Sidney Buchman

GreatSocialismRevolutionPolitical

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

Shirley Temple

MotherChildrenMeLovedRemember

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Robert Benchley

FunnyGreatKnowNothingThings

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Ronald Biggs

OverYearsUpBeenRubbishMuch

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

Mary J. Blige

SayingReadingYouMeetingPerson

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

FamilyYouWriteTellWouldYour

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Brooks Robinson

FaithBaseballPeopleYouRole Model

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