Catherine Tate Quotes

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

Catherine Tate

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ChildControlAttentionShyImage

After I sign my big contract, I'm gonna make my brothers buy me dinner. They need to buy me something for a change. I think I'm gonna get me a house. That's gonna be first. Probably get some new socks. Need some socks.

Jimmy Butler

ChangeMeDinnerThinkHouseNew

I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.

Robert Glasper

LoveChangeLiveMusicGrowYou

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Angel Olsen

AloneTimeYourselfCoolEnjoyKind

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

Alveda King

WomanKnows

I'm doing my sit-ups and watching CNBC. Suddenly, somebody starts talking about me on television... The business has gone into a weird zone of visibility. For those of us who have done it for a long time, it's strange.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

BusinessTimeMeWeirdTalkingLong

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

Michael Palin

BestWritingThinkNowModernSome

The global 'currency wars' are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But these artificial mechanisms lack tangible or lasting value.

Dinesh Paliwal

ValueSometimesManipulationLine

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

Antoine Predock

TogetherWindDirectionPlantYou

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.

Anthony Bourdain

StrengthGoodFoodCityUniqueOver

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

DeathPoetryNewKnowNothingDead

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

William Weld

GovernmentPropertyOurActs

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

Philip Gibbs

PeaceLieWorldDieRewardEarth

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