Denis Healey Quotes

The Guardian (14 August 1981).

Denis Healey

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• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Care
  • Say
  • Less

• I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hunger

• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Engage

• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • True
  • Win
  • Award

• I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Rest

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • May
  • Journey

• Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Growth

• It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

  

  Avicii
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Inspired

• Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Different
  • Long
  • Model

• Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.

  

  Anjelah Johnson

• My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Age
  • Reality

• I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.

  

  Darryl Glenn

• The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Long
  • Cool

• When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • School
  • Father
  • Summer

• It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Free

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • City
  • Friend
  • Wedding

• August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Endurance
  • August
  • Los Angeles

• The Guardian (14 August 1981).

  

  Denis Healey
  • August