Aneurin Bevan Quotes

The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.

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• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tax
  • April
  • Accounting

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Black
  • Clothes

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Way
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Violence
  • Feel

• The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Planning

• The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Just
  • Stock
  • Instincts

• I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Best
  • Player
  • I Can

• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Change
  • Impossible

• Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • House
  • Free
  • City

• I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Dream

• div

  

  Larry Wall

• 'Everything I know about the Iranians I learned at the pool room,' Graham said. 'I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are lying.'

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Pool

• And if you don't know? Now you know, nigga.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • War

• His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May

• A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Brain
  • Pool

• You have an idea in your mind of how the first show will be. Since I was 15 years old in front of the mirror saying, "If I was in Priest, this is what I would do." But in truth, I don't remember any of it.

  

  Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
  • Remember
  • Idea
  • First

• I always liked to put on a tie. The more you look like an executive, the better treated you are. It catches people by surprise.

  

  Don Wright
  • People

• If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Future

• The Burning Imperative is a sharply defined, intensely shared, and purposefully urgent understanding from each of the team members of what they are “supposed to do, now,” and how this works with the larger aspirations of the team and the organization.

  

  George Bradt
  • Team
  • Understanding
  • Organization

• The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.

  

  Aneurin Bevan