Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.

Jose Angel Gurria

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• Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Care

• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Pink

• Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Way

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Age
  • Night

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Black
  • Best

• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Live
  • Strong

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Desire
  • Purpose
  • Service

• I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Everything

• I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Like
  • Everybody
  • Amazon

• I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Look
  • Said

• I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Acting

• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • American
  • Opinion

• The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Virtue
  • Common Man

• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Quality
  • Difficult
  • Made

• Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Free
  • Restraint
  • Published

• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Web
  • Self-Doubt

• Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.

  

  Jose Angel Gurria
  • Difficult
  • Reform
  • Capital