Gerald Brooks Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
Jackie Collins -
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Dan Pink
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra -
If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
Fat Joe -
I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
Kate Morton -
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
Daley Thompson -
I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
Umberto Eco -
I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
Tallulah Bankhead
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Han dejado de engañarte, no de quererte. Y te parece que han dejado de quererte.
Antonio Porchia -
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman -
I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
Amanda Burton -
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
David Milch -
I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.
Ana Ivanovic
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
Kendrick Meek -
And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.
P. C. Cast -
Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won’t read, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life. We don’t pretend to make this a spiritual or psychological patent-medicine chest where one can come and get a pill of wisdom, to be swallowed like an aspirin, to banish the headaches of our times.
Edward R. Murrow -
Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
Travis Scott -
Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
Gerald Brooks