Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck -
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde -
Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
Naomi Klein
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There is something joyous about not talking.
Ingmar Bergman -
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass -
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
Zara Cox -
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole -
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Barbara Jordan -
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
Fidel Castro
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch -
I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.
Im Dong-Hyun -
It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
Wayne Rogers -
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
Jack Wild -
We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.
Gavin Newsom -
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
Harri Holkeri
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If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.
James Timothy Shaw -
In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.
Shunryu Suzuki -
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Aaron Carter -
The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.
Catherine Deneuve -
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
Catherine Hicks -
Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.
Nigel Short