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Ian Hislop Quotes

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: July 13, 1960

Topics

Appreciate Cloud You Understand

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Organization Greed Selfishness Onward

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

Football Treat Saying Thought Look

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

Women Me Insecurity Feel Bad Down

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Family Parents Me Society Survive

You've got to be flexible. If you want to win, you have to do whatever it takes.

Win You Want Flexible Whatever Got

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Father Mother Faith Teacher Ambition

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

Slow Buildings Down Know Why Well

Trillions of dollars spent on foreign wars have done nothing to make Americans feel safer at home.

Anthony Scaramucci

Home Feel Done Nothing Make Foreign

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

Love Men Me Think You Say

I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that.

Small Remember You Hearing Act Big

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

Susanna Phillips

Music New Classical Music Absolutely

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

Persis Khambatta

Spiritual Believe Negative Energy

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