Ophelia Lovibond Quotes

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Time
  • Place
  • Paths

• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Confidence
  • Building
  • Just

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Watch
  • Street
  • Contact

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

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

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Trying
  • War
  • Party

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Book

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks - and he is the blueprint for boxing.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Reading
  • Boxing

• I love makeup so much, but I'm very bad at doing my own makeup. Italian girls don't wear very much, so when I do put on makeup it's just very, very natural.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Bad
  • Makeup
  • Italian

• I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Book
  • Help
  • Self