George Blake Quotes

Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

George Blake

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• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Popular

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Music
  • Artist

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• From one moment to another one can lose heart.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Heart

• I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda videotape that the group's media division released in the spring of 2001, when the 9/11 attacks were in their final planning phase.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Spring
  • Planning

• You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Time

• Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Music
  • Real
  • Powerful

• O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

  

  Louis Aragon

• You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Different
  • Inspired

• I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Perfect

• Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Opportunity

• Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up

• As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • Acceptance

• Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Career
  • Comedy

• You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Life
  • Long

• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Help

• We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.

  

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Master

• Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

  

  George Blake
  • Fighting
  • Belonging
  • Defenseless