John Spratt Quotes

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

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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
  • Body
  • Weird

• 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

• In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?

  

  David Einhorn
  • Up
  • Business
  • Stock

• Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

  

  Andy Bell Oasis
  • Celebrity
  • Magazines
  • Reality TV

• I have a Defined Goal - A Dream - and I am trying to get there. Wholeheartedly, Yes, I leave nothing out. I Believe - The Regrets in Life are the Risks not taken.

  

  Arin Paul
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Regrets

• In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Small
  • Coffee
  • Kitchen

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Distance

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

  

  John Spratt