Prince Charles Quotes

I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.

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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

  

  Young Thug
  • Internet
  • Media
  • Saying

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Mother

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Know

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • True
  • Paris

• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Diversity
  • Loss
  • Forgive

• After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Something
  • News
  • Liar

• My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • She
  • Kids
  • Mother

• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Know

• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Believe
  • Comforting
  • Fairy

• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

  

  Jay McShann
  • Book

• I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Beach

• My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Words

• It's funny: I've always wanted to grow my hair out ,and I always seem to get a movie right before it's sort of the right length or right after, and it's never timed right.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

  

  John Boyega
  • Work
  • Great
  • Environment

• I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Professional