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Melvyn Bragg Quotes

A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine.

Melvyn Bragg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 6, 1939

Topics

Life My Life Obscure Lovers Sons

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

Andy Dunn

Gun End Entrepreneur Closing Like

Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.

Melissa McCarthy

Child Picture Strangers Profit Sell

There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don't talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk.

Maxine Waters

Love Time People Appreciate Country

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

Michael Gurian

Work Think Brains Differently Female

You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.

Mike Krieger

Time People Ideas Building Start

You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

Lloyd Blankfein

Age History Retirement You Look

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Jules Verne

Good Night Said Counsel Brings

A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

Nature Art Man Happy Society Him

I mix mayonnaise, ketchup and brandy and a little bit of mustard. This is a heck of a good sauce for seafood.

Jose Andres

Good Seafood Little Sauce Mustard

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Chelan Simmons

Good Brain Fake Long I Can Know

There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their phones up. But there was this one old woman looking over the fence so beautifully at him. She was totally in the moment. For me, then, I think there shouldn't be any phones at a Pope-mobile situation - or at a Beyonce concert.

Chrissy Teigen

Moment Woman Me Looking Think Doing

I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

Colin Trevorrow

Mom You Now Want Will Jewish