Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Political
  • Audience
  • Tough

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Magic
  • Tax
  • Wave

• The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Success
  • Better
  • Chicago

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Just
  • Singer

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Attitude

• I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Character
  • Always
  • Service

• I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

  

  James Thomson
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Moral

• Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?

  

  Steven John Wilson Bass Communion
  • Problem
  • Track
  • Particular

• It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God’s mission.

  

  Christopher J. H. Wright
  • God
  • Church
  • Mission

• Broadband, wireless, and technology services have become a vibrant sector of our national economy with the potential to both empower and invest in our communities.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia
  • Technology

• I know nothing about technology.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Know
  • Technology
  • Nothing

• What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies