- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I hit my lowest point in the early to mid-80s, which is when things really spun out of control for me.
- Greatest Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020