Bob Ainsworth Quotes

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• A great painting is a great painting.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Painting

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

  

  Kai Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Law

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Like
  • Never
  • Lift

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Best
  • Myself

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Business
  • Independent
  • Look

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • You
  • Nice

• Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Work
  • Looking

• I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Sweet

• It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Luxury

• In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Perspective
  • Criticism
  • Response

• If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • People
  • Health