Peter Blair Henry Quotes

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Peter Blair Henry

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
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  • Hurt
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• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Rock
  • Just
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• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
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  • Unique
  • Teen

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

  

  Halsey
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Harmony

• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm

• Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Ending

• The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Good
  • Song
  • Wonderful

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Good
  • Country
  • Wisdom