John Spratt Quotes

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

John Spratt

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• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Me

• The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Time
  • Think
  • Him

• We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • World
  • Anxiety

• Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Up
  • Blood
  • More

• I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Myself

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Democracy

• I think every Internet user likes personalization.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • Internet
  • Likes

• You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Think
  • Know
  • Positive

• People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Man
  • Refer

• I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trust
  • Confidence
  • Wise

• The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Dark
  • Hair

• When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Party

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Life
  • Forever

• I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.

  

  J. Harold Smith
  • Happy
  • Enough
  • Satisfied

• We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

  

  John Spratt