George Alagiah Quotes

A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

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• 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • High
  • Plateau

• Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Money
  • Parents

• Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Power
  • Man
  • Technology

• I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Attracted

• People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Men
  • Play

• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Black
  • Feeling

• We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Live
  • Sports
  • English

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Body

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Done
  • Know
  • Religion

• I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Up
  • Think
  • Respect

• I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Future
  • House

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Light
  • Dark
  • For Her

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

  

  Dana Priest
  • World
  • Intelligence

• The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Done
  • She
  • Character

• But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Muse

• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Believe
  • Silence
  • Flower

• A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

  

  George Alagiah
  • Really
  • Sophisticated
  • Reminder