Mark Kirk Quotes

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• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sickness

• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Good
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Name

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Period

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • King

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Know
  • Quality
  • Yourself

• I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Fun
  • I Can

• I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

  

  Brenda Fassie

• The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Seems

• You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Present
  • Yourself

• I really do believe that working together works, and it's amazing to me.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Amazing

• I intend to be making films until I'm an old lady. So, if God willing I get there, I need to create a paradigm for myself where I can make it regardless of whether or not they still like what I'm making.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • God

• We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • America