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Norman Wisdom Quotes

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: February 4, 1915 - October 4, 2010

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Home School Tired Night Born London

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Time Challenge Practice Me Better

I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

Work Best I Am People Face Giving

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

John Harvey Kellogg

I Am Think Battle Church Surviving

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

Hair Dancing Out Laser Like Lessons

I am very pro law enforcement.

I Am Law Law Enforcement Enforcement

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

Robert McChesney

Today Government People Name Result

I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.

Myself You Place Class Way Always

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

Thinking Republican Example Save He

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

Stewart Copeland

Police People American Way Band

I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater.

Practice Think You Back Down Want

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Success Commitment Without

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Michel De Certeau

Work Man Lazy Others Dying Along

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