Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Opportunity
  • Procrastination
  • Assassin

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • People
  • Live
  • Past

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Weapons

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Psychology
  • Observer

• Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Back

• Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Long
  • Women
  • War

• Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Why
  • House
  • Science

• I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Respect
  • Marriage
  • Garden

• What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

  

  Andy Hargreaves
  • Respect
  • Support
  • Teachers

• Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • You
  • Forget

• I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso
  • Respect