John Peel Quotes

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Own
  • Run
  • Soviet

• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Politics
  • Now

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

  

  Adam Green
  • Truth
  • Feel
  • Truth Is

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Career
  • Crazy

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Up
  • Always
  • Childhood

• I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Action
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Door
  • Walk
  • Citizenship

• I was always pretty good at designing things.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Always

• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  

  David Berman
  • World
  • Design
  • Creativity

• I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.

  

  John Madden
  • Perfect
  • Stupid

• If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Blessed
  • Mistakes
  • Profit

• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Acting

• I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Name
  • Cuba

• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

  

  John Peel
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes
  • Clever