Lester Holt Quotes

The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.

Lester Holt

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Hate
  • Interviews

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Vulnerability
  • Fascinated

• I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Stop
  • Doing

• Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Purpose
  • Used
  • Market

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• Oh how the VacancyLaughed at them rushing by.'Turn again, flesh and brain,Only yourselves again!How far above the apeDiffering in each shape,You with your regularMeaningless circles are!'

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Brain

• Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.

  

  Maimonides

• I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Reading

• 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

  

  Edward Young
  • Past
  • Heaven
  • Wise

• Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Strong

• Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Bad

• I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'

  

  Jason Alexander

• One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

  

  Peter Bofinger

• When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Stop
  • Connection

• I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

  

  Alexander Wang

• I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't give, they'll rot in their own selfishness. I'm not worried about them. What I'm really interested in is the day-to-day person, human beings who want to go to another level of their life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Humans
  • Idiot

• It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Soul
  • Player
  • Artist

• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Lie
  • Jury
  • Courtroom

• The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.

  

  Lester Holt