Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries -
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
Vince Cable -
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
Laura Carmichael -
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
Octavia E. Butler -
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
Indra Nooyi
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
Kate Brown -
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
Harlan Coben -
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Sam Harris -
I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
Tavis Smiley -
ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
Jack Keane
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Ira Glass -
We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
Baba Kalyani -
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow -
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
Vikram Seth -
For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
Karin Slaughter
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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
Gene Tierney -
Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
John Heywood -
If you get a thousand calls in one day, how can you expect to be able to answer them all?
Charles Bass -
Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.
Og Mandino -
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Kurt Vonnegut -
I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.
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