Patrick Marber Quotes

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • End

• Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Politics
  • Compassion

• Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

  

  Cam Newton
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Trilingual

• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Government
  • Special
  • Will

• I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Couple
  • Stage
  • Ego

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Myself
  • Weird
  • Write

• I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Movies
  • Watch
  • Over

• I didn't know what was going through my mind.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Through

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Want
  • Know
  • Down

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Know
  • Act

• It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Wisdom
  • Matter
  • Tragedy

• I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Goal

• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Grass
  • Blade

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Work
  • True
  • Change

• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Man
  • You