James Douglas Quotes

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

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• After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Loved
  • Alcohol
  • Salt

• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.

  

  Ian Wace
  • People
  • Money
  • Generation

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Music
  • Friends
  • English

• I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Chance
  • Unhappy

• I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Power
  • Doing
  • Deserve

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Obsessed

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Stock
  • Haters

• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Attention

• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Growth
  • Journey
  • Moon

• I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

  

  James Douglas
  • Growth
  • Commitment