"A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open."

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Source : "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

Damian Lewis

#Kids Quotes #Balls Quotes #Noses Quotes

“Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War”
“~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~”
“Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished...”
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.
“I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.”
“On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.”

Source : "Wagoner's words show how far we've come" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.
“I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.”
“And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.”

Source : "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 2002.

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