Polly Toynbee Quotes

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Polly Toynbee

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HappinessTimePeopleNowRealOver

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

John Carmack

FutureTimeFightObstacleCost

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

John Linder

I AmProudAmericanCountryBeliefs

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

Matthew Stewart

PeopleBadSometimesNormalEthical

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

Amanda Schull

WomenMenPeopleThinkRealizeHard

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

Matt Bomer

CommunicationSelfShameDialogue

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

Ross Mathews

LifeJobYourselfSucceedYouWant

Unmanned airplanes - and more broadly, autonomy in space, in the air, undersea - is a big future area for Boeing and an area where we are continuing to build out collaborations. So we are always looking for partners in that arena.

Dennis Muilenburg

FutureSpaceLookingBuildMoreAir

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Derek Walcott

LoveStrongerBreakWholeSymmetry

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

Chris Paul

I AmNew YorkCityMeCareYou

With each new appropriations bill Congress considers, I have to ask myself, 'Is this a good way to spend taxpayer dollars?'

Phil Gingrey

GoodMyselfCongressNewWayAsk

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

Thomas Keneally

SchoolEarlyAustraliaBeingEven

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

Tobe Hooper

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