Gavin Lyall Quotes

You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Years
  • Far

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Climb

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Intelligence

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Potent
  • Vigorous
  • Virile

• Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Happy
  • Control
  • Adapt

• The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Free

• Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Good
  • Prayer

• Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Focus

• I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Why

• We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.

  

  Kevin Rose
  • Up

• Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided in taste. When these conditions are fulfilled, it is always easy to digest, even for tired stomachs.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • Light
  • Tired

• I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Music
  • Advice
  • Daughter

• For the most part, and even with Miz, the WWE superstars are so good to the fans and everything they do.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Good

• The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give something to their country. I just hope, for young people of this generation, that they'll experience that feeling once again, that by working on large goals, they can do something more than their own individual ambition.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Bike

• I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Family

• You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

  

  Gavin Lyall
  • Feeling
  • Fly
  • Happen