David Ige Quotes

There will be no name-calling when I disagree with anyone, no disparaging remarks toward anyone, no taking sole credit for collective achievements or blaming others when things go wrong.

David Ige

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• Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Intensity

• It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Man
  • Know
  • Woman

• My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Fighting
  • Poverty
  • Programs

• The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Essence
  • Spirituality
  • Month

• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

  

  Hal Borland
  • May
  • Promise
  • April

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Know
  • Value
  • Never

• In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Book
  • American

• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Promise

• Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Attention
  • Management

• Public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger someone who is less than stable.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Opinion

• Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Together

• When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the mass of stories that one is subjected to living one's life is otherwise overwhelming.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Beginning

• I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Humanity

• It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

  

  Lily James
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Weird

• If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Up
  • Thoughts

• What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • True

• But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Why
  • True
  • Pretty

• There will be no name-calling when I disagree with anyone, no disparaging remarks toward anyone, no taking sole credit for collective achievements or blaming others when things go wrong.

  

  David Ige