Penelope Lively Quotes
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.Penelope Lively
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg -
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
Fiona Apple -
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus -
I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
J. Christopher Burch -
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
Frances Beinecke -
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
J. F. C. Fuller -
There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
Vanilla Ice
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
Walter Isaacson -
We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I know about raising money.
Nancy Pelosi -
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid -
Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
Yvonne Strahovski
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If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that people are culturally and philosophically aligned with the way that we approach the business.
Bobby Kotick -
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Antony Beevor -
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount -
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
Charles H. Townes -
I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket to his concert, and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth.
Eddie Levert -
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively