Margrethe Vestager Quotes

If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Kid

• You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • World
  • May
  • Experience

• I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Mind
  • History
  • Science

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Me
  • First

• I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Work
  • Job
  • Selfish

• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Family
  • Achieve
  • Just

• There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Way
  • Universe

• The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Me
  • Lost

• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Charity
  • Selfish
  • Generosity

• Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Man
  • End
  • Selfish

• And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Women
  • American
  • America

• People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Know
  • Voice

• (He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Money

• Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. But we have a long way to go to get our modern privacy laws in line with modern technology.

  

  Al Franken
  • Long
  • Why
  • American

• He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

  

  Johann Most
  • Society
  • Present

• I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describes them is one of his fortes and it boggles my mind how he's able to do that and to create so many. It must be thousands by now.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • King

• All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Father
  • Personality

• The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Road

• I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.

  

  Margrethe Vestager