Michael Flanders Quotes

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders

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• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

  

  Carl Weathers
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• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
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• I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Help
  • Purpose

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

  

  J. Cole
  • She
  • Job
  • Man

• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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  • High
  • Space

• Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Discipline
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• My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Fruit

• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Job
  • Law

• I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

  

  Christopher Meloni
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• I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Job
  • Competition
  • Blow

• What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

  

  Mary Barra
  • Life
  • Job
  • Rest

• Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Country
  • Job
  • Kids

• You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Up
  • Job

• The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Fire

• Our fighters would be nowhere if they didn't have the support coming from folks like those that served with me.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Support

• My DNA is building a product and a service.

  

  Brian Acton
  • Service

• To be captain and win a lot at Juventus, to play for 20 years, to play in the World Cup, European Cup, I think I had a good career, no?

  

  Antonio Conte
  • World
  • Good
  • Career

• The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.

  

  Emma Restall Orr
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Moving

• The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

  

  Michael Flanders
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