Margaret Beckett Quotes

I don't join or leave things lightly.

Margaret Beckett

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• When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Man
  • Myself

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Back
  • Argue

• Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Europe
  • Magnificent

• I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Know
  • Me

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Hurt

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Independent
  • Living

• Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Red

• My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Artists
  • Shine

• I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

  

  Imelda May
  • Fashion
  • Better
  • Sorry

• Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Free
  • Travel

• A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

  

  Jack Vance

• It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • God

• I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Family
  • Job
  • Desire

• People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • People
  • Healing

• Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Community

• As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Architecture

• Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner
  • Law

• I'm trying to get myself in good shape, do my workouts, so that when I am back, I am ready to go.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • Good
  • Trying

• Formerly, if you killed a man, it was possible that you were insane-but now, if you, having friends and money, kill a man, it is evidence that you are a lunatic.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Money
  • Friends

• Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.

  

  Allison Mack
  • Character

• I don't join or leave things lightly.

  

  Margaret Beckett