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Chris Blackwell Quotes

I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

Chris Blackwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: english
Birth: June 22, 1937

Topics

Coffee Best World Marketing Sugar

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

Hate People World End Hell Why

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Things Agree Most Tories

Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?

Beauty Learn Rules I Can Sometimes

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Good Book You Lesson Bad Teach

I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I've been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.

Mother Women Childhood Two Arts

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

Good Talent You Born Never Craft

The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.

Derek Cianfrance

Time Start Feel Judge Easy Actor

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery Aristocratic

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Wislawa Szymborska

Place Group Inspiration Monopoly May

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

William Shakespeare

Smiles Thief Something Robbed Steals

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Myself I Am Wise Vanity Fools Hand

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

Car Relationship Very

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