Gyles Brandreth famous quotes
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Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
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Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.
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As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.
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He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life
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If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".
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On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.
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If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?
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John Major. He dresses so well. And so quickly.
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In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
-- Gyles Brandreth
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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You know what shows today are missing? Stars.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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