John Sweeney Quotes

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

John Sweeney

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LifeMeRestEndMy LifeWish

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

JoBeth Williams

MomThinkForeverDangerBeing

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

Joe Gilgun

MomentPeopleMeWaitSlowTalking

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Jez Butterworth

ChangeLearningYouChooseAlive

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

WisdomHairWhite

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

John Lewis Gaddis

BeginningOutPositionAnythingEven

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Andy Warhol

GreatSchoolPeopleThinkYouGo

There is something attractive about taking risks.

Sonny Mehta

RisksTaking RisksSomethingTaking

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

Stan Dale

EveryoneScaredPlanetOnlyChanged

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

Trevor Jackson

GreatPeopleSayWantNeverThings

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

Tom Stoppard

LiveWorldYouRewardWayTry

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

Robert Blaha

BusinessPeopleRunUnderstandPut

My family celebrates both the navratras that come twice in a year. We also refrain from eating meat. I just enjoy that people come home, savour the variety of snacks and participate in our puja during this time.

Ronit Roy

FamilyHomeTimePeopleEatingYear

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