David Talbot Quotes

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • School
  • Thought
  • Drama

• Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Myself
  • London

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Important
  • You
  • Patience

• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • Fact
  • Advancement

• I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Relationship
  • Evidence
  • IRS

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Court
  • Ask

• I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Goals
  • Interested
  • Anything

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Parent
  • Often

• With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everything in pristine quality and having everything mixed where it's absolutely perfect. It's more about a vibe.

  

  Washed Out
  • Important
  • Perfect
  • Quality

• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Money
  • Better
  • Understand

• People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Time
  • Things

• If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

  

  Douglas Lain
  • Life
  • Game
  • Winning

• The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

  

  Jesse Owens

• I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Famous

• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

  

  David Talbot