Dave Rowntree Quotes

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• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• All of my songs are autobiographical.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Autobiographical

• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • May
  • Create
  • Treat

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Sports
  • Achievement

• Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • School
  • Guy

• While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Father
  • Peace
  • Storm

• Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Great
  • Quality

• For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Want

• I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Always
  • Tell

• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • You
  • Empathy

• I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Economics

• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Times

• I want to have a normal high-school experience.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Feel
  • Fill
  • Niche

• If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.

  

  Andrew Bryniarski
  • People
  • Movie
  • Scary

• I mean the number one reframe with different people is, there is no one right answer to your life. There are lots of great yous, there's no one single best you and by the way, you never actually know about the ones you didn't get a chance to try. We're all getting partial credit on easy questions, not right, wrong on true or false, on all the big issues of life. That's the same, once you accept that, that's the nature of being a human being, then how's it going to day, it's going reasonably well, which is fabulous because that's as good as it gets.

  

  Dave Evans
  • People
  • Different
  • Mean

• I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Sad
  • India
  • I Have Learned

• For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • Different
  • Player
  • Basketball

• There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

  

  Dave Rowntree Blur