Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

Tom Hodgkinson

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DancePeopleTelevisionKnowActive

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

Andres Iniesta

GreatFootballPeopleWantOverOur

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

Melinda Gates

LoveWomenPerceptionLossTrueWay

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

John Oliver

FearPeopleRetirementYouFallBad

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Jeannette Walls

FastBigBig FanFanAgainWriter

To me, wrestling is just as cool as it ever was.

Jeff Hardy

MeCoolWrestlingJustEver

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

John Sterling

LifePainJoyStrongStagnantNoble

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

Roger Morris

MomentManAmericanPoliticalKind

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Julia Roberts

LoveRomanticSparkFindDifficult

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Jay Kay

LifeRespectYourselfYouWayMore

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

Craig Ferguson

TomorrowWritingNightBetterDoing

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Bob Iger

ScienceCreativityYourselfYouRoom

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Mario Botta

ArchitectureMeBuildingSmallGoing

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