Clive Sinclair Quotes

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Clive Sinclair

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• The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Single
  • Author

• I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Me
  • Building
  • Brand

• That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • World
  • Success
  • Day

• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Knowing
  • Escape

• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Power
  • True

• I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Black
  • Start
  • Black-and-white

• Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Road
  • Order
  • Out

• It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • American
  • Law
  • Justice

• The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Day
  • Will

• As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Men
  • Love

• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Sides
  • Both
  • Both Sides

• Did you see the speed of the ball or not?

  

  Rafael Nadal

• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Age
  • Food
  • Learning

• People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.'

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Dream

• I don't have an issue with marrying an actor, though it's definitely tough. I work with actors and interact with star wives, and I don't know how they do it. Loyalty is a very important factor for me, and I need to be in a relationship where the person will complete me and fill me up.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Music
  • Happens

• Desire is a beast that must be fed!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Desire
  • Beast
  • Fed

• I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Different
  • Important
  • Films

• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

  

  George Strait
  • Writing

• In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

  

  Clive Sinclair