Mark Walport Quotes

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• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Good
  • Men
  • Changes

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Organization
  • Step

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Daily
  • Preparation
  • Bread

• I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Guitar
  • Down
  • Three

• We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Kind
  • Possible

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Thought

• I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Reading
  • Day

• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Things

• Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Love
  • Conflict
  • Add

• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Law

• I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Know
  • Singing

• When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Film

• Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Books
  • I Love
  • Wrong

• However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

  

  Frank Langella

• In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Done

• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Lord
  • Judgment
  • Footman

• A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Girl
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Ifs

• It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Risk