Peter Mandelson Quotes

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

Peter Mandelson

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Welcome
  • West

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Relationship

• I know everything about Michael Jordan.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Know
  • Everything
  • Jordan

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

  

  Flume
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Fuse

• I never travel without my sketch book.

  

  Ian Wright
  • Book
  • Never
  • Travel

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • World
  • High
  • Doing

• I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Him

• When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Love
  • Song
  • Singing

• If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Growing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Food
  • Service
  • Weird

• I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Done
  • Job

• The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Age
  • Celebrity
  • Editors

• We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Social
  • Term
  • Online

• When you treat everyone on the sets with respect, it keeps the workspace free of tension. Your conscience is clear, and that reflects on the camera.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Free
  • Respect

• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Mean
  • Suffering
  • Forget

• We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

  

  Ayah Bdeir
  • World
  • Creators
  • Inventors

• Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Mean

• What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

  

  Peter Mandelson