William Beckett Quotes

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

William Beckett

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• Squares
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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Work
  • Different
  • Long

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Ask
  • Teammates

• The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Small

• War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • War
  • Small
  • Luxury

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Moral
  • Humanitarian

• It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Helpful

• I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Aesthetic
  • Suits
  • Savile Row

• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Art

• I think the best restaurants in America should be in California.

  

  David Chang
  • America
  • California

• There's no such thing as a vegetarian.

  

  Charles Barkley

• I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Community
  • Understanding

• Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Time

• Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good
  • Value
  • Love Of Truth

• Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

  

  J. B. MacKinnon
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Ruins

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

  

  William Beckett
  • Garden
  • Squares
  • Knicks