John Spratt Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Die

• Being the DA was, without a doubt, the best job in the world. I loved knowing that people would get their justice.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

  

  Alan Barth
  • Character
  • Free
  • Assassination

• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Minds

• Time is our most valuable nonrenewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • Time
  • Priorities
  • Resource

• For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

  

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews
  • Country
  • Enjoyment
  • Happinesss

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

  

  John Spratt