Michael Gove Quotes

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • You
  • Alone
  • Concrete

• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Up
  • School
  • Knowledge

• I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Work
  • Never
  • Studio

• I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Want
  • Writer
  • Will

• We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Jewelry

• Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Mind
  • Excuses

• Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)

  

  Aristophanes

• My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Wife
  • Driving

• I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important

• I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Work

• My objective is to be among the best.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

  

  Peter Jackson

• I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Light
  • Strive
  • Sweetness

• You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

  

  David Shore
  • People
  • Changes
  • Late

• The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

  

  Michael Gove
  • People
  • Country
  • Running