John Heywood Quotes

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John Heywood

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• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Food
  • Look
  • Eat

• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Care
  • Films
  • Defend

• I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Find
  • Answer
  • Worth

• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Best
  • Find

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Change
  • Government
  • Care

• Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Chess

• To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• Morality is contraband in war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Morality

• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Kings
  • Stone

• I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evolution

• It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • Enough
  • Legal

• Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Evil

• Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well.

  

  Judah Friedlander
  • Actors
  • Roles
  • Stereotype

• We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • War
  • Society
  • Peace

• The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Opportunity
  • Reason
  • Knocks

• Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • Body
  • Conversation
  • Stick

• Better to give then to take.

  

  John Heywood