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.

J. B. Priestley

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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 asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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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.

  

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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.

  

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• When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

  

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• You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.

  

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• The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over.

  

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• Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

  

  Matt Gonzalez

• Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.

  

  Emmanuel Macron

• 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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