Keith Waterhouse Quotes

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

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• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Doing

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Start

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Game
  • Games
  • Selfish

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
  • Actor

• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Important
  • Money
  • Man

• That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Light
  • Stop
  • Car

• I'm like this. When I feel something, I want to do something, I do it - I just do it. So I'm like this also in my life: if I want to wear some crazy clothes, I put it on.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Life
  • Crazy

• Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Alone

• Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Society
  • Past
  • Alone

• Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Society
  • Spectacle
  • Surveillance

• Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

  

  Keith Waterhouse
  • Society