Bethany McLean Quotes

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Situation

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Responsible
  • Debate
  • Press

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Rules

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

  

  Zendaya
  • Care
  • Cold
  • Warm

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Culture
  • India
  • Where

• I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Success
  • Quality

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Style
  • Effort

• The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Career
  • Course
  • Olympics

• Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Problem
  • Healing
  • Admitting

• The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

  

  Alonzo Church
  • Annoyed

• We think that right now we got a core group of players that are extremely hard working. Now, how good we're going to be, how many games we're going to win? That remains to be seen.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Team
  • Win

• When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Home
  • Day
  • Baby

• Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

  

  Bob Casey, Jr.
  • People
  • Home
  • America

• Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

  

  Bethany McLean
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