Damian Thompson Quotes

Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

Damian Thompson

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• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  

  Ulrich Beck
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• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
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• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Definition

• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Fields
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• Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Book
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• Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Different
  • Financial
  • Countries

• Clearly, countries expressed the wish to have more. But at least we have something to rely upon for the time being.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Time
  • Wish
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• Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Society

• The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • People
  • Moral
  • Countries

• Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Food
  • Sick

• As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Able
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• We are jointly calling on both countries to refrain from further testing and to sign up unconditionally to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Countries
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• Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
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  • Liberty

• I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Reading
  • Questions
  • Countries

• Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
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  • Trouble

• With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

  

  Edward Jesse
  • Women
  • Dog
  • Exception

• Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Free
  • Wish

• Faith without works is dead.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Faith
  • Dead
  • Works

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Countries
  • Experts
  • Developing