George Pierce Baker Quotes

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

George Pierce Baker

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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hate
  • Change
  • Win

• Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Soul

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Long
  • Saying

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Die
  • Wife

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Character
  • Communication

• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • World
  • Society

• And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • First
  • Tour
  • Concert

• Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Action
  • Military
  • Service

• Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.

  

  Watt Key
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Dad

• There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Model
  • Look

• Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Walking

• I'll come in from a long flight and go straight to the grocery store. I love cooking for my man.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Long
  • Cooking

• There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Time
  • Work

• For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Up
  • Singing

• For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

  

  Betsy Landin
  • Nature
  • Ocean
  • Comparison

• Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

  

  George Pierce Baker