William Esrey Quotes

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Human Rights

• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • American
  • Best

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Know
  • Laugh

• I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Change
  • Creativity
  • Jazz

• My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Heaven

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Never
  • Old

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Security

• What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Attitude
  • Wants
  • Strike

• They'll all pee blue for one week to ten days, for about the duration of the show. The first opening I've enjoyed!

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Blue

• Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.

  

  John Quelch
  • People
  • Family
  • Fear

• People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

  

  John Diamond
  • People
  • Death
  • Perspective

• Radicalisation thrives on economic insecurity and exclusion. To create stakeholders in a peaceful world, people need opportunities to fulfil their potential and build good lives. Helping them is a powerful message of respect.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Idea
  • Innovations

• Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.

  

  William Esrey
  • World
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