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 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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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.
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...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.
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He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
