John Key Quotes

I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

John Key

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• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Most
  • Admit

• I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• I'm an iPod person.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Person
  • iPod

• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Society
  • Democracy

• In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Together
  • Look
  • Fly

• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Try
  • Goodness

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Camera

• Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Running
  • Myself

• I hope I never get so old I get religious.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Hope
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • People
  • Want
  • Envy

• Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

  

  Fritz Lang
  • Music

• And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • True
  • Beliefs
  • I Know

• My health and schoolwork come first. I work hard to get lots of sleep, but I probably work just as hard to spend time with friends.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

  

  William Powell
  • Night
  • Choices
  • Eye

• In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Lovers
  • Importance

• I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

  

  John Key