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Lucy Powell Quotes

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.

Lucy Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: October 10, 1974

Topics

City Transformation Confident Growing

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

Jillian Michaels

Sympathy Believe Person Irony Very

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Age Men Grow Attention Say Pay

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

Robert Rodriguez

Think More Human Human Being Being

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Steve Buscemi

Mother Talent Me Doing Talking Kid

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

Legal Corruption You Capture Never

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Martin Yan

Life Great Job I Am Professional Am

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Michael Patrick Jann

Good Style Money Energy Create Way

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

Evil Construction New Spirit More

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

Dennis Prager

War People Suffering World Reading

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

Brian Greene

College Picture Messy Room Harvard

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

Aravind Adiga

People Research Writing Building

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: 'I could be out there making money right now.'

Shay Carl

Myself Money Listening Think Sitting