Margaret Mahy Quotes
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.Margaret Mahy
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
Adam McKay -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel -
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Felix Dennis -
The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
Raghuram Rajan -
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
Patricia Cornwell
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. Eric Drexler -
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
Ma Jun -
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall -
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart -
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
Maisie Williams -
You have to be quite stupid to act.
Rachel Weisz -
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson -
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
A. R. Rahman -
When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
Rachel Zoe -
Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
Hank Johnson
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With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.
Geoff Mulgan -
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
John Surtees -
I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
Roberto Azevedo -
Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Margaret Mahy