R. Kent Hughes Quotes

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

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• There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Start
  • Movement
  • Capitalism

• We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Know
  • Genes
  • Cells

• The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Strength
  • Someone
  • Skills

• The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • See
  • New
  • New York

• Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Belief
  • Living

• Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Trust
  • Sports

• One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Inspired
  • Mine
  • Juice

• Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Leaving

• Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Alone
  • Walking
  • Mouth

• God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Dream
  • Artist
  • Film

• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • High
  • Summer
  • Mountains

• I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Heart
  • She
  • Fun

• I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Amazing

• I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • She

• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  

  George Foreman
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Sleep

• I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

  

  Will Estes
  • Relationship
  • Try
  • Seriously

• Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Wells
  • Brilliant