Michael Leunig Quotes

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

Michael Leunig

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LifeBeautifulHappyMostTimes

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

John Lanchester

WorkMoneyPizzaPeopleWorldFind

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

John Logan

GreatDayFireShipEndWant

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

John Ruskin

GreatPersonSculptorOnlyPainter

I'm a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School. I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it's a very, very tough environment.

Steve Bannon

BusinessSchoolToughMediaYouGet

One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.

Robin DiAngelo

TodayPowerRacismGroupUnderstand

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

Logic

ThinkYouRapperUpRapMicrophone

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Joyce Meyer

GodWhyYearsOutDaysExpect

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

Janice Dickinson

FlyDallasGetBotoxSixMonths

For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.

Bruno Dumont

WorkRelationshipPeopleGivingYou

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

Susan Holloway Scott

FearKingInfluenceHatredSheMost

The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should be allowed, insofar as possible, to be the decisive factor in the manner of our going.

Sherwin B. Nuland

LifeNatureChoicesWillPossible

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

GovernmentWantPoliticiansLastToo

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