Edward Brooke Quotes

Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

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• Surprise is key in all art.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Art
  • Surprise
  • Key

• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Feeling

• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Tradition
  • Fact

• I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Free
  • Privilege
  • License

• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Different
  • Money

• E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Economic

• No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Grow

• My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Long
  • Women
  • Service

• Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty

• Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Art

• I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

  

  Anne Sexton

• Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Live
  • Police

• I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Wedding

• You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

  

  David Bergen
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • School
  • Kids

• Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Different
  • Night
  • Earth

• To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love.

  

  David Wolfe
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Enough

• Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Why

• I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

  

  Edward Brooke