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

• 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

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

  

  Jason Alexander

• 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

• If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • World

• I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air' on the net for free - ripping us off. The problem is many people are of the mindset that says, 'If I can watch it for free, I'll watch it.'

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • People
  • Guy
  • Free

• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • God
  • Perfection
  • Error

• Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Death
  • Car
  • Leaving

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Light

• Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Time

• 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