John Key Quotes

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

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• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• 'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Kind
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Game
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ideas
  • Bed
  • Communism

• Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Better

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Power
  • Society
  • Reading

• It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Bad

• I get travel-sized versions of all of my essentials. That way, I can stay on the same routine whether I'm home or on the road.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Home
  • Road
  • Travel

• I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Always
  • Evolution

• The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • Present
  • Humanity

• All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

  

  John Key
  • Live
  • Pain
  • Cancer