Anton du Beke Quotes

The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

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• If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

  

  Orville Wright
  • True
  • Hope
  • Assumption

• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Which
  • Equilibrium
  • Morbid

• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Old Age

• I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Think
  • Deep
  • Speak

• I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • Change
  • Losing

• I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Big

• My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Family
  • She
  • Woman

• I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Myself
  • Loved
  • Holiday

• Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Free
  • Way
  • Old

• To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Mischievous
  • Understatement

• The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Country
  • Now
  • Court

• It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Company

• They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • House
  • Sweet
  • Plan

• Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • School
  • Doing

• Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions...We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Remember

• Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

  

  John Adams

• If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Passion

• The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

  

  Anton du Beke