Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Nicky Oppenheimer

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• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Growth
  • Driving

• I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Break
  • Away

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Know
  • Law
  • Retirement

• I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Architecture
  • Down
  • Apple

• Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Taxes

• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Star
  • Wind
  • Just

• People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Belief
  • Media
  • Innocence

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • School
  • Dad

• All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Childhood
  • Say
  • I Can

• I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Father

• When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Single Thing

• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poverty
  • Soil

• Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

  

  Nicky Oppenheimer
  • History
  • Poverty
  • Diamonds