Peter Greenaway Quotes
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
I've never been fired in my life.
Kara DioGuardi -
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz -
I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
Walter Mosley -
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!
Adam Sandler -
If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.
Blaise Pascal -
Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
Angelus Silesius -
I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.
Louis MacNeice -
Donald Trump and producer Mark Burnett are reportedly considering creating a Broadway musical based on The Apprentice. The pair came up with the idea when neither one of them could find a match to set fire to a pile of money.
Amy Poehler -
I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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I push myself as hard as I can every day so I can achieve my goals and so I feel I have nothing to regret later on after my career.
Max Aaron -
While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
Samantha Power -
The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life.
Lewis Howes -
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
Leonard Susskind -
There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
Ewan McGregor -
'Naked! So I can see no pranks and ruses.'
Peter Greenaway