Jim Allchin Quotes

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Jim Allchin

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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • You
  • Stop
  • Moving

• My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Parents
  • Small

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Great
  • Death
  • Mum

• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Morning

• As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Free
  • Myself
  • Perfume

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Best
  • Design
  • Train

• I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • Family
  • Goodbye

• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Small
  • Change
  • Respect

• Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Lucky
  • Pressure

• While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • Why
  • Awesome

• A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Good
  • You
  • Drink

• My younger sister looks to me to provide her with advice on how to do her job better - though she's too shy to ask me questions, so I have to give her my opinion on an unsolicited basis.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • She
  • Job
  • Opinion

• I think writing and singing go together, but I treat them as two separate careers because I write for others. If I'm writing for myself, I prefer to be with the producer. And then we can vibe out and throw ideas back and forth, and I'll basically let the producer play me a bunch of beats until I vibe with one.

  

  Kehlani
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Singing

• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Career
  • Peace
  • Justice

• Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Good
  • Together
  • Two

• Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Boat

• I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

  

  William E. Simon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hate

• We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

  

  Jim Allchin