Simon Mainwaring Quotes

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

Simon Mainwaring

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: 1967

Topics

FoodPeopleWorldCapitalismReality

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

Jess Walter

LoveBookProcessTryingYouFall

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

Jessica Savitch

CakeReadyKnowOffOnlyMeans

The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.

Andrew Yang

BusinessSmallTryingWebsiteWant

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

Andre Rieu

MusicArtYouPlaySoundReal

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

Jeff Goodell

WaterThinkingAmericaYouClean

I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.

Amy Schumer

EqualityThoughtAttentionYouOld

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

Suga

GoodMusicEndWillAlways

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

Christopher Nolan

MindPerformanceTryWriteLast

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Alfred Hitchcock

I AmProvidePublicBeneficialAm

People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.

Peter Thiel

LifeGoodLiveDayPeopleThink

I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called the 'Victory Cafe', and thinking sadly to myself, 'This is a very good manuscript but not a very good book.' I don't know what I meant by that, but I was pretty heartbroken and sure it was true.

Sheila Heti

GoodMyselfVictoryBookThinking

My first influences were superhero artists.

Scott McCloud

FirstSuperheroInfluencesArtists

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