Margaret Thatcher Quotes
The West as a whole in the early 1990s became obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.
Quotes to Explore
-
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
-
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
-
'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
-
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
-
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
-
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
-
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
-
I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
-
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
-
For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
-
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
-
I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
-
I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.
-
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
-
I just go into a contest looking to put down a good run. As long as I feel like I've done what I came to do, and I'm happy with my riding, where I end up doesn't matter that much to me.
-
I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
-
Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.
-
The West as a whole in the early 1990s became obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.
