Benjamin Jowett Quotes

Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Dreams
  • Underdog

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Laws

• I view myself as a male artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • View

• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Music
  • You
  • Vine

• I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Great
  • Drawing
  • Feet

• Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Find
  • Used

• Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I am proud that everybody is knowing me on the streets and airplanes and airports.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Proud

• Government is a collective unity. There is no decision by cabinet which can be attributed to one individual.

  

  Emmerson Mnangagwa
  • Decision
  • Unity

• I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • People
  • High

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value - and affordability - of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Work
  • Long
  • Together

• Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  

  Benjamin Jowett
  • Value