Classic Quotes - Page 26

• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Mad, Sun

  "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (song) (1931).

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• Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Crazy, Character, Men

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• I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There’s a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band.

  Chris Brown

  Essence, Auto Tune, Creating

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• This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

  Terry Teachout

  Games, Black, May

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• Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled. Meanwhile the ghetto in the outside world is a prison as well, and a much more difficult one to escape from than this correctional compound. In fact, there is basically a revolving door between our urban and rural ghettos and the formal ghetto of our prison system.

  Piper Kerman

  Ghetto, Government, Doors

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• Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!

  Julia Spencer-Fleming

  Writing, Gold, Pace

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• I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

  Adele

  Children, Years, People

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• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Unrequited Love

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• Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

  Clive James

  Sports, Rude, Balls

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.231, Pan Macmillan

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• A classic is a book that remains in print

  Mark Van Doren

  Book, Print, Remains

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• Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Hunting, Views

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• I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

  Prince Philip

  Thinking, Wife, Edinburgh

  Speech in London, 6 Dec. 1988, comparing participation in blood sports to selling slaughtered meat, in The Times 7 Dec. 1988

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• It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Writing, Yesterday

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• The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

  Clive James

  Kgb, Secret, British

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• In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

  Clive James

  Mistake, Golf, Men

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.503, Pan Macmillan

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• All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

  Clive James

  Movie, Effort, Hollywood

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Cities, Names

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

  Clive James

  Player, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

  Clive James

  Artist, Want, Facts

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Umpires, Effort, Achieve

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• What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

  Michele Norris

  Ipods, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

  Susie Bright

  Sex, Would Be, Looks

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• I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

  Candice Olson

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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• I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

  Candice Olson

  Integrity, Believe, Home

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• I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

  Molly Haskell

  Art, Finals, Film

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