Kenneth Baker Quotes

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Kenneth Baker

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Suffering turns men towards their creator.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Creator

• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Want
  • Know
  • Passion

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Community

• I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • People
  • Great
  • City

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Better
  • Write

• Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Water
  • Security
  • Priorities

• My friendships are very important to me.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Me
  • Very

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Live
  • Big
  • Dress

• Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• For anything to be made whole, the first step is to know what’s missing.

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Know
  • Missing
  • Whole

• There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Society

• When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Fun
  • Amazing
  • Confidence

• Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Election
  • Vietnam War
  • Anti-communists

• Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

  

  Kenneth Baker