Michael Birch Quotes

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

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• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Weight

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • First
  • Piano
  • Wrote

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Colleagues

• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Always
  • Geek
  • Closet

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• I believe in creative visualization.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • I Believe

• Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Special

• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Remember
  • Today

• They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.

  

  Tanith Lee

• I shared my shelter, a ninth share in Arthur's valour. I broke a hundred forts. I slew a hundred stewards. I bestowed a hundred mantles. I cut off a hundred heads. I gave to an old chief very great swords of protection.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great

• One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.

  

  Elias Canetti

• Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural philosophers must have been, face to face with the phenomena of nature, before their science had been elaborated and had cast a ray of light over the unknown.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • World
  • Nature
  • Science

• You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Money
  • Sunshine
  • Find Out

• My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Family
  • Father
  • Church

• I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

  

  John Green
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

  

  Michael Birch
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