Jim McGovern Quotes

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.

Jim McGovern

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• Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • May
  • Die
  • Trees

• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • You
  • Everything

• Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Culture
  • Students
  • Clothing

• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Respect

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Point

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Imagination

• We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Brain

• Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Writing

• You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Team
  • Comedy

• We actually found some home videos, some really funny footage of me when I was around 3 years old. I come up to the camera to do a Nixon impression. I don't know who taught me that, but I come up to the camera and said, 'I am not a crook.' I got a really good laugh. You see me register that bringing joy to people is a positive thing.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • God

• Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.

  

  Jim McGovern
  • People
  • Life