J. B. Priestley Quotes

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

  

  Zhuangzi
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• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
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• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
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• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
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• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
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• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

  

  Eddie Campbell
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• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.

  

  Nate Robinson
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• When it comes to salary negotiation, don't forget that salary is only one term of employment. What else is on the table - vacation time, benefits, bonuses, flex days? Before determining that these terms are 'must-haves' or 'giveaways' to get a bigger salary, find out what the counterpart has to offer.

  

  Christopher Voss
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• Jack: A potential Cabinet Minister if ever I saw one. Dishonest in a way which seems embarrassingly frank. Upright when creeping. And dignified when at his most stupid.

  

  Dennis Potter
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• I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

  

  Ruby Wax
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• On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

  

  Frank Sinatra
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• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

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