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Lily Cole Quotes

The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

Lily Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: December 27, 1987

Topics

Community Travel Strong Lost Human

When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'

Jessica Williams

Past Me Night Wake Up Thinking You

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Jeremy Jackson

Long You Know Sitting Difficult

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

Sophocles

Tears Gold Possible Dead Would Cure

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Roy Acuff

Man Heaven Place Remembered Like

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.

Mary Roach

Day Me Husband Now Try Dressing

Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.

Douglas Rushkoff

Simple Learn Person Know Understand

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

David Whyte

Past Control Regret Story Present

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Time Story You Tell Your Comics

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

Money People Rich Who

I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

Woody Harrelson

Me Cool Remember Bad Okay First

I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.

Peter Hook

Great Joy Me Reading Kings Said

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Shigeru Yoshida

Freedom Peace Democracy Expectations