Michael Gove Quotes

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Michael Gove

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Great
  • Home
  • Responsibility

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Day

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Love
  • Myself

• A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Security
  • Citizen
  • Paths

• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Think
  • Struggle
  • Swimming

• All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Historical
  • Global

• When conflicted between two choices, take neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Choices

• I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Work
  • Technology

• I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Great
  • Money

• A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Up
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• We always say that National songs have to have a heart, that we don't make cold songs.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Heart
  • Cold

• I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

  

  Eileen Pollack

• There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.

  

  James Bay

• The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.

  

  Hamid Drake
  • World
  • Change
  • Victims

• The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • World
  • Society

• The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • House
  • Reason
  • Beats

• In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

  

  Michael Gove
  • World
  • Trying
  • Achieve