James Goldsmith Quotes

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

James Goldsmith

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• When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Africa
  • Blues

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Kids
  • American
  • You

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Party
  • Chinese

• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Think
  • Same
  • Plants

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Song

• Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • More
  • Artists
  • Others

• If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Love
  • Care
  • Try

• I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Mean
  • Tough

• Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Society

• My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Education

• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Race

• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Inspiration
  • Separation
  • Reunion

• If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Lost
  • Reflection

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Important
  • Space
  • Cleaning

• The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Society

• There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Life
  • Strong

• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • True
  • Consciousness
  • Access

• Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

  

  Plato
  • Poverty
  • Parent
  • Wealth

• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  

  James Goldsmith