Don’t ever ask a barber if you need a haircut.
The general principle applies to politicians consulting various experts in different ways.
I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.
Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.
I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'
I think if I had met him [Lenin] without knowing who he was, I should not have guessed that he was a great man; he struck me as too opinionated and narrowly orthodox.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
According to fathers, their kids are always good.
I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.
For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
I think [John's Adams] descriptions of the personalities of [Benjamin] Franklin and [Tomas] Jefferson and others were pretty accurate. It is only when he felt he was wronged by them that he lets loose his anger and resentment.
My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
The very best have had their calumniators; the very worst their panegyrists.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.
'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.
In my eyes, there will never be another Haloti Ngata, but that comes from a biased perspective from me.
It's a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.