John Prescott Quotes

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

John Prescott

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• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • inspirational

• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Boy
  • Accomplishments

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

  

  Vanity
  • Over
  • Million
  • Offended

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Political

• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Woman
  • Feet
  • Maturity

• No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Numbers
  • Decent

• I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • World
  • Good
  • Treat

• Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Culture
  • Crazy
  • Europe

• I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

  

  Ian McShane
  • Like
  • Film
  • Successful

• 'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Asshole

• Mrs. Robbins asked: 'If I am not for myself, who then is for me?'-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • World
  • She

• The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • May
  • Wisdom

• An Angel's smile is what you sell, You promise me heaven then put me through hell.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Heaven
  • Smile
  • Promise

• In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Culture
  • Vision

• I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Time

• Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Focus
  • Risk
  • Picture

• When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Help

• I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky

• In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

  

  John Prescott