John Mortimer Quotes
Our system, which we call democracy, at least leaves us the right from time to time to get rid of those who wish to govern us. And, if it's nowhere near Utopia, it is probably the best of all imperfect systems. All I can do is to advise you to be very cautious of those who claim to represent you and order you about for your own good.
John Mortimer
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
Fiona Apple
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
Carles Puigdemont
I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
Kate McKinnon
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
Gabrielle Aplin
If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
D. A. Pennebaker
India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
Rahul Gandhi
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty
I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.
Toby McKeehan
In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.
Jamie Dimon
For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.
John Hagel III
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery
The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.
J. I. Packer
Our system, which we call democracy, at least leaves us the right from time to time to get rid of those who wish to govern us. And, if it's nowhere near Utopia, it is probably the best of all imperfect systems. All I can do is to advise you to be very cautious of those who claim to represent you and order you about for your own good.
John Mortimer
