Favourite Quotes - Page 28

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

  Trevor Phillips

  Book, House, Bleak

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• I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Opportunity, Singers, Remember

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Paul Scholes Earns Plaudits From Football's Elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Music Is

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• My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

  Andy Barrie

  Years, Old Buildings, Pieces

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• I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

  John Nettles

  People, Creative, Hats

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

  Gordon Brown

  Sports, Teamwork, School

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• There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Believe, Son

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.17, Routledge

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• My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.

  Simon Critchley

  Dark, Self, Oxygen

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• I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

  Jon Foreman

  Sunset, Thinking, Sunrise

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• Cooking is one of my favourite things - from going to the market, bringing the stuff home and preparing it, to cleaning the kitchen afterwards. I've lost my figure a few times. There have been moments when I've overeaten, for comfort. But with discipline and hard work, you can get your figure back.

  Linda Evangelista

  Hard Work, Home, Discipline

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• I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!

  Bipasha Basu

  Queens, India, Would Be

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• I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

  Bill Gates

  Book, Molecular Biology, Genes

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• Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.

  Tyra Banks

  Ex Boyfriend, Hands, Used

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• When I was a kid, my favourite time of the year when I was child was that magical first snowfall. I'd yell Yippee! Snow! and run up to the front door and shout You know the deal... You have to let me in now.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Children, Kids

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• We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious.

  Dave McPherson

  Kids, Thinking, Lucky

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• I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.

  Immortal Technique

  Song, Diversity, Different

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.

  Charli XCX

  Song, Writing, Mind

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

  Deborah Smith

  Stars, Awards, Focus

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Unique, Voice, Effort

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Golf, Fans

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about a dozen times before I even met him. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, which isn't in this film... but whenever I see him, I always tell him that Passengers is my favourite song because it's one of his least auspicious ones.

  Matt Lucas

  Song, Mad, Dozen

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

  Paul Weller

  Artist, Foundation, Today

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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