Brit Hume Quotes

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Now
  • Saying

• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Help
  • Knowing
  • Gossip

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Change
  • Week
  • Relax

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Lead
  • Rise
  • Employment

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Painting

• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Got

• I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Great
  • Baby

• Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Earth

• They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

  

  Livy
  • Men

• Developing a series is a next step for me.

  

  Christy Romano

• We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

  

  Brit Hume
  • Society