William Greider Quotes

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William Greider

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• Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Story
  • Name

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Job
  • Know
  • Oil

• I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • London

• True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • True
  • Giving

• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Silence

• À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Fire

• As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

  

  Ben Chandler
  • Important
  • Connection

• We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Work
  • Country
  • Hurt

• I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

  

  Matt Damon

• It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

  

  Khalid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Technology

• Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Heart

• Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Up

• If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • High

• There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

  

  Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Die

• I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • God
  • Reading
  • Church

• When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

  

  Armando Iannucci
  • People

• What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.

  

  James Fenton
  • Lyric

• I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Water

• Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Sound
  • Monster
  • Universal

• A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Freedom
  • Christian
  • Gate

• But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Athletic
  • Carriage
  • Dance class

• When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

  

  Steven Strogatz
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Resistances

• The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

  

  William Greider
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