Douglas Kirkland Quotes

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Up
  • Moving
  • More

• A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Things

• Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Sorry

• I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Fall
  • Basketball
  • Sketch

• It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.

  

  Maluma
  • Spiritual
  • Material Things

• Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Angry
  • Blessings

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Read

• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Physical

• Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Character
  • Year

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Myself
  • Position
  • Where

• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Political
  • Interesting

• I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Career
  • Attention

• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• For me, creating a supply chain of what we should be eating is incredibly complicated. It's complicated to figure out how to change the food system in America.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • America
  • Food

• I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Culture

• Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr).

  

  African Spir
  • Progress
  • Nations
  • Murder

• I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea

• Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Friends
  • Burden
  • Sobbing

• You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

  

  Douglas Kirkland