- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest innovation of all is social networking, and cellular technology is the facilitator for social networking. People are mobile; social networking is people, and the only way people connect with each other is wirelessly.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020