John Key Quotes

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

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• Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Life
  • Me
  • Emotional

• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Flower

• 'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Giving
  • Community

• You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Music
  • Country
  • True

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Change
  • Eyes

• My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Chance

• Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • You
  • Chef

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Job
  • Stop

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Perseverance

• When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Why
  • Remember

• My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Films

• We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Age
  • Management

• Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything.

  

  Om Malik
  • Attention

• I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.

  

  Glen Campbell

• ...thousands of little children occupy sleeping quarters with parents and boarders whose every act is visible to all. Morality indeed! Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Society

• It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

  

  John Key
  • People
  • Society
  • Proud