Andris Piebalgs Quotes

“If I am going to invest in Russian gas, I should have a clear understanding that I can bring that gas to market.

Andris Piebalgs

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• With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Parents
  • Fall
  • Always

• I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Feet

• I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Serious

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Different
  • Long
  • Story

• People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Time
  • Eyes

• If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Tone

• I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Work
  • Music
  • Heart

• It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • World
  • Way
  • Consciousness

• It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.

  

  W. Eugene Hansen
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Serious

• Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Done
  • Artist
  • Exception

• There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Long
  • Art
  • Funny

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Market
  • Sell
  • Million

• The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Music
  • Market
  • Category

• Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.

  

  Steve Hanke
  • Market
  • Prices
  • Commodities

• “If I am going to invest in Russian gas, I should have a clear understanding that I can bring that gas to market.

  

  Andris Piebalgs
  • Market
  • Invest
  • Gas