Polly Toynbee Quotes

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Polly Toynbee

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HappinessPainJoyPeopleBrainNow

For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.

Jim James

LifeGoodPeopleFaceTrueRight

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

John Kitzhaber

BudgetConstitutionalBalancedStates

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Robert Knepper

FunnyLoveBelieveBeing FunnyBeing

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

Jean Smart

CharacterBestYouGoingShowGet

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

Robin Day

MeEmbarrassedUsedGetPublished

I work with a stylist called Devon Nuszer and a makeup artist called Aaron Barry, and between those two, I trust them implicitly. I have the things I do over and over again and that I feel safe with, but they inspire me to take risks, and I trust them so much.

Rose McIver

WorkTrustRisksMeMakeupInspire

We live in an age of micro aggressions where people are deemed racist or sexist of phobic for making one wrong tweet.

Mike Cernovich

LiveAgePeopleWrongWhereSexist

I really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.

Mick Foley

EnjoyReallySarahFearlessness

When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

DMX

HomeBusinessChildrenWifeWorld

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

Claire Denis

MusicMeNothingWatchingStarted

I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.

Sherwood Smith

MistakesRememberWorthLookBad

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Thomas Hardy

MomentDecisionMindOfficeHigh

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