Bernard Looney Quotes
I know a lot of people have views on oil and gas companies and our role in the energy transition, I would like to use this platform to talk openly about that and explain the role BP can play, as I believe we share the same concerns and hopes.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.
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We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.
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Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.
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I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.
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Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
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All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
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Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.
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Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility.
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I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.
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I know a lot of people have views on oil and gas companies and our role in the energy transition, I would like to use this platform to talk openly about that and explain the role BP can play, as I believe we share the same concerns and hopes.
