Ann Plato Quotes

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Ann Plato

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• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • You
  • Person
  • Confident

• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Law
  • Better
  • Realize

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• Won’t you help the government in saving Gujarat? Won’t you help us in maintaining peace and harmony? The Government of Gujarat appeals to you for help, appeals to you for shanti (peace) and sanyam (restraint or self-discipline).

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Discipline

• The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Guilty

• Fear is the enemy of logic.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Fear
  • Enemy
  • Logic

• Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Dark

• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  

  Jane Austen

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Time

• I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Opportunity

• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • God
  • Writing
  • True

• And we want a fight, and I will fight, but we will be respectful. I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments, I will respect him and I want- crowd boos No, no, I want everyone to be respectful, and let's make sure we are, because that's the way politics should be conducted in America.

  

  John McCain
  • America
  • Respect

• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movie
  • Ignorance

• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • American
  • Literature
  • Doing

• There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Work
  • House

• To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

  

  Ann Plato
  • Ignorance
  • Remove
  • Benevolence