Ian Macfarlane Quotes
For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
-
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
-
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
-
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
-
I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
-
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.
-
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
-
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
-
You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
-
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
-
Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
-
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
-
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
-
I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
-
There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
-
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
-
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
-
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
-
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
-
I'm a big supporter of women doing anything they want to do!
-
For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.
