Heather Brooke Quotes
In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.Heather Brooke
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming -
I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
Nargis Fakhri -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman -
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
Yu Chui Yee -
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You have to be quite stupid to act.
Rachel Weisz -
For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
Gail Collins
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
Warren Farrell -
It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
Victoria Pendleton -
A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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He who reforms, God assists.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.
Leon Trotsky -
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
Sallust -
Whatever my team needs - that's what I do.
Rajon Rondo -
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
Warren Bennis -
In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.
Heather Brooke