Eddie Mair Quotes

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Story
  • Find
  • Scary

• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Decision
  • Advice

• Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Like
  • Dark

• Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I've met have really gone past anything that I've ever dreamed of, so I'm really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You'd be amazed at some of the people I call friends.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Day
  • Best
  • Win

• There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Time
  • Night
  • Nice

• It was men’s ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

  

  Donald Johanson

• For any actor, it's very important to make your co-star comfortable.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Important
  • Star

• I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • She
  • House
  • Chocolate

• Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός,ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατοςκαὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον,τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον

  

  Epicurus

• Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sleep
  • Poet
  • Cry

• Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, 'My God, I was so different at the start of this job.' I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Time
  • God
  • Different

• If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.

  

  Priscilla Chan
  • Bad

• I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

  

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