Denis Healey Quotes

The Guardian (14 August 1981).

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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

• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Real
  • Love

• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • Death
  • Chicago

• I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.

  

  Nelly
  • Different
  • Game
  • Black

• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• The Guardian (14 August 1981).

  

  Denis Healey
  • August