Brian Thompson Quotes
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
Gary Lineker -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell -
I have no regrets. I've got my health.
Naomi Campbell -
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Dana Spiotta -
If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
Kalpana Chawla
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
Naftali Bennett -
I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
Imelda May -
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
Vaclav Havel -
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
Allan Bloom -
I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
Lucy Dacus -
I do not believe on giving amnesty.
Doug Hoffman
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Nelson Mandela -
Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.
Jason Fried -
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike -
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Marsilio Ficino -
The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
Donald Berwick -
When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.
Marine Le Pen
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You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.
Chogyam Trungpa -
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
Victoria Wood -
I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.
Kenny Chesney -
The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
Artie Lange -
The biggest thing is helping other people, we've got the opportunity to do it.
Brian Thompson