John Spratt Quotes

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• The only power you have is the word no.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Power
  • You
  • Word

• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Rest

• What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Working
  • Playing

• Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • Invest
  • E-mail

• I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Career
  • Know

• Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Spring

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Weird
  • Body

• I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Black
  • Fear

• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Intuition
  • Big
  • Decide

• Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Art

• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Men

• Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Song
  • Childhood

• If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Present

• I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

  

  Albert Pujols
  • Time
  • Power

• How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • Style
  • English

• I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Hair

• Everything outside doesn't matter when I'm on the court; it's just me and nothing else. Family problems, school, what happened to my father, all the stress goes away.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Family
  • School
  • Father

• Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

  

  Donna Langley
  • Women
  • Business

• Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.

  

  George Gascon
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Imagination
  • Beginning

• Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Space

• I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of Dinoshark and that's in the movie. That's where I really got a big whopping taste of what it's like to be on one of his sets.

  

  Alex Stapleton
  • Movie
  • Taste
  • Filmmaking

• It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

  

  David Adam Smith
  • Important
  • Political
  • Environment

• Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

  

  John Spratt