Mark Lawrenson Quotes

It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

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• It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  

  Wale
  • Beauty
  • Sound
  • Fake

• You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • You
  • Class

• I would describe my personal style as eclectic.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Style
  • Personal Style

• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Work
  • Education
  • Respect

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • World
  • Poverty
  • Riches

• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Free

• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Church
  • Christmas

• Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Home
  • Talent
  • Sure

• I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Night
  • Band
  • Listening

• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Intellectual

• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Service
  • Mankind
  • Serve

• I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Career

• 3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Heart

• No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Listening

• Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Small

• I absolutely love 'Four In A Bed.' Before I started filming, and I was unemployed, it was the focus of my day. Four B&B owners go to each other's B&Bs, have a meal and stay over, and then pay what they think the room was worth. At the end of the week, they sit down together and open each other's envelopes, and they all start rowing.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Together
  • Focus

• It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Up
  • Important

• It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Game
  • Society

• If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.

  

  Blythe Masters
  • Women
  • Job

• It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Joy

• It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

  

  Mark Lawrenson