Margaret Heffernan Quotes

I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.

Margaret Heffernan

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• It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!

  

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• In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

  

  Laura Marling
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• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

  

  Nathan Parsons
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• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  

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• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

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• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  

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• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  

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• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

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• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

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• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

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• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

  

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• There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

  

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• I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

  

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• As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

  

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• I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

  

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• Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real.

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Real

• I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Kids
  • Happy