Jeremy Clarkson Quotes

I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

Jeremy Clarkson

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GreatWaterManMeBoatIce

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

Jill Lepore

WorkBetterInterestingDoingSkill

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

Stacy Keach

PeopleInterestingQuestionsHeroes

I remember they used to tell me, they said, 'Khaled, you can't get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.' So I went and bought a Phantom.

DJ Khaled

MeSmallRememberYouSaidNeed

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

Chris Chocola

SuicideEnemyBayBombHouses

I think Daniel Bryan reminds me a lot of my brother, Owen.

Bret Hart

BrotherMeThinkI ThinkReminds

Ms. Rice was a bad national security adviser and a bad secretary of state. She was on the wrong side of some of the administration's biggest internal policy fights. She had a tendency to flip-flop when it came to the president's core priorities, and her political misjudgment more than once cost Mr. Bush dearly.

Bret Stephens

PoliticalPrioritiesBadSecurity

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

Bryan Fuller

MenCelebrateStrongPictureView

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

Arthur C. Clarke

GoodImpossibleDoingWorthPossible

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it's always a good deal different than you expect it.

Alice Munro

LifeGoodGreatMomentPeopleThink

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

William Lashner

HeroLawyerMatterSoundWriteHow

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Peter Thiel

SciencePeopleYouTellPokerLike

During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities such as Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Va., Philadelphia, and Boston to learn about America's history.

Tim Griffin

FatherMotherTeacherHistoryLearn

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