Brilliant Quotes - Page 9

• In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  School, Film, Antonio

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

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• I base my happiness on the relationships in my life. I would rather have the absolute worst acting career or, I don't know, whatever the worst job would be... picking up radioactive material? I would much rather have that and a good marriage than a horrible marriage and a brilliant career. That's just not a trade off I'd make.

  Chris Demetral

  Acting, Good Marriage, Horrible

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 5, 2003.

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• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  Madeleine Albright

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

  Russell Baker

  Literature, Trios, Novelists

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• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

  Russell Baker

  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

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• Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

  Bono

  Team, Technology, People

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• For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Marketing

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• Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

  Joan Didion

  Sky, West Coast, Afternoon

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• Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Bullying, Thinking, People

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

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• I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

  Katherine Jenkins

  People, Would Be, Lucky

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

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• What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Integrity, Believe, Winning

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• One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

  James Earl Jones

  Uncles, College, Kansas

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• Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

  June Jordan

  Political, Telling The Truth, Poetry Is

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• I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

  Alicia Keys

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Peter, Comedic

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• I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

  Steven Wright

  Dream, Night, Watches

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• Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Rocks, Views

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• Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Jobs, Bird, Different

  "Angry Birds Creator Raises $42 Million" by Evelyn M. Rusli, dealbook.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Men, Wife

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Faith, Strong, Powerful

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• Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.

  Loic Le Meur

  Andrew, Entertaining

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• War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

  Kate Forsyth

  Running, Dog, War

  Kate Forsyth (2002). “The Fathomless Caves: Book Six of the Witches of Eileanan”, p.131, Penguin

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• He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands and chews his food for so long, mashing it into a paste before he swallows.

  Garth Stein

  Beautiful, Hands, Long

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

  Orson Scott Card

  Humanity, Doe, Enders Game

  FaceBook post by Orson Scott Card from Jul 08, 2013

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