Phil Bredesen (Philip Norman Bredesen Jr) Quotes

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • World
  • Trying
  • Book

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Obsessed

• The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Small
  • Difficult
  • Big

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Moments
  • Inside
  • Cells

• For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Retirement

• That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Trump
  • Idiot

• Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Live
  • High
  • Food

• What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Magical

• My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'

  

  Becky Lynch
  • School
  • Brother
  • Thought

• I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Culture
  • Compassion

• The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • American
  • Progress

• I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

  

  Leah Ward Sears
  • Society
  • Marriage

• Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• And I'm always surprised when people have seen 'The Foot Fist Way', so when people bring that up, I'm always surprised that's reached other people besides my immediate friends.

  

  Danny McBride
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

  

  Jane Leeves
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.

  

  Brandon Cruz
  • Good
  • Summertime

• Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Risk

• Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity?

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Energy
  • Universe

• There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

  

  Phil Bredesen
  • Business
  • Growth
  • Recruitment