Bernard Looney Quotes
I think it’s a good question whether we have the right to play in the new world or not.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.
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Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
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It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.
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I think it’s a good question whether we have the right to play in the new world or not.
