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

• Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Words
  • Dark
  • River

• I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Good
  • Face
  • Films

• While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • Power
  • Independent

• Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Time
  • Words
  • Serious

• I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

  

  Ben Shahn

• 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