Margaret Heffernan Quotes

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Margaret Heffernan

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• My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fall
  • English
  • Word

• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Personality
  • Angry
  • Roles

• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
  • Best
  • Chicago

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Opinion

• Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Immigration

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Ideas
  • Progress
  • Innovation

• We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Best

• When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Brain
  • Poetry
  • Spanish

• We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Proud
  • Sun
  • Destiny

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rock

• I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Want
  • Say

• These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg
  • May
  • Peace
  • Opinion

• In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we're not consistent. Sometimes we're brave, and sometimes we're not. Sometimes we're very aggressive, and sometimes we back right down.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Brave

• I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Energy

• Let my temptation be a book.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Book
  • Temptation

• The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

  

  Margaret Heffernan