Len Deighton Quotes

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Len Deighton

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• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Science
  • Star
  • Students

• I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Painting
  • Nothing
  • Matters

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Fame

• Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Women
  • Power

• We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Why
  • Political
  • Hate

• I think women love to read love stories.

  

  E. L. James
  • Women
  • Think
  • Stories

• And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Yourself
  • Others
  • Rather

• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Cancer

• How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Earth
  • Passion
  • Heaven

• Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Different
  • Relationship

• That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Job

• We try hard to provide the best user experience possible, and that means the best ads possible, so we work with the brands to come up with the best images.

  

  Alan Schaaf
  • Experience
  • Possible
  • Provide

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Honesty
  • Percent
  • Finished

• Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

  

  Len Deighton