Alistair Darling Quotes

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Alistair Darling

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• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Relationship
  • Yourself
  • Breakup

• How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Now

• The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Give
  • Open
  • Washington

• I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • Questions
  • Sunday

• While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve - and hate will die unborn. Love - and chains are broken.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Earth
  • Words
  • Hate

• We will bring a comprehensive plan to the government to assist you in every way. There is no room for racism and discrimination in our society, none... We will turn racism into something contemptible and despicable.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Society
  • Racism

• Competition for power is of two sorts: between organizations, and between individuals for leadership within an organization.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Competition

• I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl, I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Wish

• We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Family
  • Remember
  • War

• It's now widely recognised that a diverse research group is usually stronger, more creative, and more robust and flexible. Such a group usually copes better in a downturn.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.

  

  Bernice King
  • Life
  • World
  • Father

• Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

  

  Donna Murphy
  • Up
  • Summer
  • Stock

• My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • School
  • High
  • Friend

• Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Smart

• The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Support

• Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

  

  Jamal Lewis

• That's what the general gives me. That's what our budget can withstand.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Budget
  • Gives
  • Withstand

• The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Government
  • Recovery
  • Principal

• Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

  

  Alistair Darling
  • Recovery