Blokes Quotes - Page 4

• [ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated outside of India, but he said to me the only place that he found where they would be safe was in Russia, and he didn't really want them to be educated there! So, I said, "Well, send them to Australia. I'll look after them." And my security bloke went absolutely bloody bananas, and I said, "We'll look after them." But, in the end, he didn't send them.

  Bob Hawke

  Children, Australia, Russia

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• My father was an old - fashioned bloke, and he actually told me one day, "I'm not your friend, I'm your father. My job is to bring you up, give you values for life and to ensure that you carry those values through."

  Warren Mundine

  Jobs, Father, Giving

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• So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Names

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• People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

  Nick Frost

  Fighting, People, Fit

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• That’s Narmer with the spoon,” I guessed. “Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

  Rick Riordan

  Cereal, Spoons, Breakfast

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Beer, Past

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• Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .

  Gerry Harvey

  Ambition, People, Stuff

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• If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.

  Kerry Packer

  Encouragement, Attitude, Thinking

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

  Nick Hornby

  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Loss, Lovely

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• I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.

  Louise Rennison

  Snogging, Make Sense

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.57, HarperCollins UK

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• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

  Martin Amis

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

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• I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.

  Len Goodman

  Sleep, Bed, Want

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• Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

  Alan Shearer

  Team, Father, Creating

  "From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

  James Taylor

  Sides, Ordinary, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Kingdoms, Firsts

  "Russell Brand Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2010.

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• The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

  Beth Orton

  Grief, Dna, Useless

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pride, Luxury, Knowing

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• Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Editing, Car, Racing

  "Top Gear". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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• Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Fall, Mean

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.83, Vintage

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• I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kings, Jobs, Son

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• Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

  John Connolly

  Boys, Groups, Joining

  John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.

  Eddie Izzard

  Running, Fall, Causes

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.

  Warren Mundine

  Morning, Couple, Father

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• I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

  John Howard

  Thinking, Average, Australia Day

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