Alistair Beaton Quotes

Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.

Alistair Beaton

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• I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Find
  • Tough
  • Atmosphere

• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • You

• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Masses

• Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Life
  • Country
  • Like

• There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Always
  • Playing
  • Pictures

• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Working
  • Possibilities

• TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • Women
  • Community
  • Peace

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Band
  • Old
  • Hell

• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Band
  • Going
  • Ending

• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Fire
  • Lead
  • Lit

• I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Truth
  • Author

• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Feeling

• I don't typically drink coffee.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Coffee

• Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

  

  George Herbert Palmer
  • Understanding
  • Instinct
  • Familiarity

• Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.

  

  Alistair Beaton
  • Author
  • Word
  • Painful