Antony Jay Quotes
He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
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I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as - well, we've been put in a box, about who we should be like.
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We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
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He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
