Favourite Quotes - Page 8

• My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

  Matthew Morrison

  Running, Perfect, Vancouver

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• I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

  Yoko Ono

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  "This much I know" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Quality, Amy, Stuff

  "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• When the 'Batman' TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

  Eartha Kitt

  Taken, America, Tvs

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk.

  Tom Hiddleston

  New York, Dark, Apples

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• I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out.

  Paul McKenna

  Reading, Struggle, Thinking

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• No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Men, Indulge In

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.283

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• Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

  Julie Burchill

  Thinking, Years, Restless

  "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

  Nicolas Cage

  Opportunity, Scratches, Lines

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• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Gun, Next Week

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• The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

  Drew Carey

  Soccer, Hate, Team

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• My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

  Jimmy Carter

  Harry Truman, President, Truman

  "Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I have a limit: I take what I need from it, and I do find that some of my favourite philosophical writings tend to be poppier. I admire smart people who are able to describe things simply or in a human, readable way.

  Daniel Lopatin

  Philosophy, Smart, Philosophical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

  Ryan Gosling

  Growing Up, Kids, Boys

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• My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

  Ellie Goulding

  People, Laughing, Fans

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

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• I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

  Ellie Goulding

  Colour

  Interview with Jenn Selby, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. May 25, 2011.

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• Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

  Moby

  Scotland, Special, Scottish

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• I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

  Taylor Momsen

  Knives, Black, Relax

  "What's the gossip on knives, Metro?". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Bags, Elements, Outfits

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• Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

  Mike Myers

  Dad, Comedy, Grew Up

  "Mike Myers: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• Vanity is my favourite sin.

  Al Pacino

  Vanity, Sin

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• I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

  Joe Perry

  Erotic, Spices, Mixtures

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• One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

  Steven Pinker

  Country, Character, Land

  "My week" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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