Augustus Hare Quotes

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

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• China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born

• To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Business
  • Today

• I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Long
  • Money
  • Heart

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Long
  • Alone

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Long
  • Conviction

• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Real
  • Age
  • Want

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Know
  • Fighting
  • Security

• Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Different
  • Tiger

• You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Fight
  • Radical

• The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Children
  • Future
  • Running

• When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Start
  • Young
  • Theater

• My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it." So I was very well trained in that aspect.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • True
  • Strong
  • Desire

• True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

  

  Isaiah Berlin
  • Knowledge
  • Merely
  • They Are

• Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

  

  Augustus Hare