Barbara Stocking Quotes

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December.

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• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Brilliance
  • Bull

• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Holidays

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
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• I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Up
  • Against
  • Progressive

• When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Years
  • Young
  • Maybe

• There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Play

• I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Making

• My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

  

  Dino De Laurentiis
  • Work
  • Long
  • Simple

• The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Smart

• My religion is inclusivity.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Religion

• It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • History

• Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Interesting

• Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December.

  

  Barbara Stocking
  • Help
  • Injustice
  • Climate Change