Polly Toynbee Quotes

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

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• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Know
  • Now
  • Eggs

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Very

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Concentrate

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
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  • Government
  • Internet

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
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  • Loved

• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Important
  • Friend

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Mission
  • Pilot

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Problems

• If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Home
  • California
  • Rain

• For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Interesting
  • Passion

• Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Future
  • Free
  • Growth

• I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Water
  • Couple
  • Week

• Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

  

  Polly Toynbee
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