David Beckham Quotes

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Identity
  • Piece

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• You need to train your brain to be positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Brain
  • Positive
  • Train

• In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mind
  • She
  • Strong

• My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

  

  Joe Lhota
  • City
  • Son
  • Firefighter

• I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

  

  David Beckham
  • Time
  • Job