Beatrice Webb Quotes
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.Beatrice Webb
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda -
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West -
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
Rachael Harris -
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
Earl Browder -
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince -
Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
Lance Reddick
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Pamela Anderson -
Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
Barbara Lee -
We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.
James P. Hoffa -
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
Leah Ward Sears
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
Peggy Johnson -
I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
Bruce McCulloch -
Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.
Penelope Spheeris -
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
Chris Lilley -
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Max von Sydow
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
Oscar Wilde -
I thought it'd be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn't have to be pretty.
Lily James -
The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Adam Smith -
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Alex Berenson -
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
Beatrice Webb