Jenny Shipley Quotes

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

Jenny Shipley

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FireI AmRhetoricToysPaintChina

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

Jessye Norman

WalkWithoutMile

It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'

John Carmack

SuccessGreatPeopleYouDoneUp

The 'sent' folder of my email program is really my biggest inspiration and my biggest source of lyrics. That's where I go to pick up a lot of the lyrics that I'm writing.

Jens Lekman

WritingGoInspirationEmailUp

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Melissa Leo

WomenSadPeopleWorldBlackBetter

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

John Milton

WarStillEndlessBreed

Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.

Max Heindel

LifeCharacterPastThoughtBody

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

Michael Caine

HomeWifeFriendsYouStrangersNew

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

WorkAloneArtWaterManJoy

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Steven Pinker

OceanMoonFlyTreesInternetFish

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Tony Bennett

LearningMusicLearnMoreStillLot

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

Tom Brokaw

PeopleThinkGenerationYouKnow

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Robert Adams

GoodSleepNightYouPlaceBoring

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