Ben Macintyre Quotes

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

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• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Now

• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • High
  • Quality
  • Ability

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Francine Busby
  • American
  • Learn
  • Operations

• The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Up
  • School
  • Alone

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Man
  • Control

• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Joy
  • Smile
  • Tears

• I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Right
  • Wage

• People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Work
  • Painting

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • People
  • Girl

• I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Trying

• I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

  

  Ben Macintyre