Polly Toynbee Quotes

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

Polly Toynbee

Recitation: by Male by Female

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HappinessWaterChallengePolitics

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

John Lithgow

FutureAmazingEnvironmentalEarth

I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'

Amy Adams

LoveStrugglePersonalityFunPeople

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

Simon Cowell

FoodHateFancyBeansSpaghetti

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Mitch Kapor

DesignUnderstandingSoftwareNeeds

It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

Luke Evans

PlanDreamNeverPartSortReally

This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn't it?

Jason Day

GreatProfessionalLivingGreat Thing

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

Dennis L. McKiernan

SchoolBrotherGraduationHigh School

The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.

Chrystia Freeland

WorldAssumptionsTragedyEvents

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

Brad Pitt

WorkTimePeopleDemocracyInternet

I applaud Chomsky's willingness to take a stand.

Bruce Harwood

StandTakeWillingnessApplaud

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away.

Antoine Predock

GrowthShadeAwayPrairieNurse

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

SoulJoyDoingDoneThingsLies

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