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James MacGregor Burns
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
Shirley Henderson
Children don’t just play any more – they’re far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you’re actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It’s far better to remain a calm parent.
Dalai Lama
I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.
Andrej Pejic
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It’s a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.
Ron Atkinson
I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
Bill Griffith
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
Claire Charmont
The one who always loses, is the only person who gets the reward.
Christian Dior
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Janis Ian
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
Don Knotts
Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they’re thinking, if they’re happy or sad. That’s what I tried to do with Barney.
Arthur Rock
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
George Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Frank Dobson
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Neil Gaiman
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Thomas Secker
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
John Prescott
The only break I ever took was to eat. That’s all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
Ralph Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
You don’t drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there.
Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Each time we face a fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Vinoba Bhave
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Computer games tend to be boys’ games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
Ray Bradbury
You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.
Eddie Marsan
There’s no great mystery to acting. It’s a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It’s about asking questions and using your imagination.
John Mortimer
There is always time for failure.
Aaliyah
I don’t think about my previous success. I’m happy that the work I’ve done has been very successful.
Malcolm Gladwell
The great accomplishment of Jobs’s life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies – his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness – in the service of perfection.
Big Boi
The sheep-people don’t think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it’s the gospel truth and they don’t have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don’t go and do their own investigations if it’s relationships or politics or anything.
George Eliot
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Paul Erdos
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.