Jim Ratcliffe Quotes

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Thought

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Situation

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Easy

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• The truth is, I'm not body confident.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Truth
  • Body
  • Truth Is

• Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • War
  • News

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Common decency is a core part of who people are.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • People
  • Core
  • Common Decency

• When I decided to do 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Game
  • Question
  • Celebrity

• It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • America
  • Comedy

• America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

  

  Bill Johnson
  • America
  • Military

• America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Believe
  • America

• In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • America