James Callaghan Quotes

I think there is a case for opening a national debate on these matters.

James Callaghan

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• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Reason

• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Perfect
  • Old
  • Jeans

• I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Like
  • Worry
  • Too Much

• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Early

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Friends
  • Place
  • Come

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • World
  • Best
  • Risk

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Renaissance

• I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Learned
  • Ride
  • Younger

• Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Job

• I've never said, 'I live for art.'

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Art
  • Said

• My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Character
  • Me
  • Educated

• I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

  

  J. G. Ballard

• I thought as the game went on, our ball movement and player movement got better.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Player
  • Movement
  • Ball

• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded- not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Success

• We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

  

  Ayah Bdeir
  • World
  • Creators
  • Inventors

• For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Ambition
  • Distance
  • Something

• I think there is a case for opening a national debate on these matters.

  

  James Callaghan