Polly Toynbee Quotes

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

Polly Toynbee

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We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.

Joe Russo

RespectWindYouFindFreshUp

I sit down with my coach to watch past performances. But I can be very critical. I don't watch myself very often - it makes me cringe!

Jessica Ennis-Hill

MyselfPastMeDownI CanCoach

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

Jeremy Grantham

KingStock MarketEverythingMarket

What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.

Jeh Johnson

TimeFireSchoolKingCollegeMe

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden

TimeActionGeniusBornPlaceNever

'Midnight Special' is, like 'Starman', a government chase film - in the government chase film genre - about a boy who has special powers and the government agents' quest to find him.

Jeff Nichols

GovernmentFindBoySpecialHim

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

John Philpot Curran

MeYouMayCannotIntimidate

Everybody grows in their own way.

Robbie Robertson

WayOwnGrowsEverybody

Here I am, a black man with a white man's heart. In the end, that's what God wants us to do. He wants us to help, and he wants us to share.

Rod Carew

GodHeartManI AmBlackEnd

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

Johnny Vegas

YouEveryoneUpOwnYourComedian

Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.

Douglas Brinkley

LiveAgeDepressionDayWorldSpeak

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's limits, you've already set yourself up to fail.

Anthony Joshua

YourselfLimitsSpeakYouPlaceUp

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