Peter York Quotes

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

Peter York

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I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

Jimmy Page

BestMeBackWantAlwaysHold

I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

Jessica Hahn

HeartMindSpeakWillQuestionTurn

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

John F. Kennedy

VoteMoreSinglePayBuyGoing

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

GoodMoneyPeopleGamePartnerships

Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

Maryam D'Abo

LifeExperiencePeopleSkinSayOff

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Joseph Brodsky

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The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

Dinaw Mengestu

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It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

Chris Van Hollen

HopeReflectionUnderstandingYou

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!

Chris Van Allsburg

TimeBookParentDoingYearBack

I'm not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we've got Super Bowls to win.

Bob McNair

WinLivedGotGoingAnywhereSuper

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

Anne-Marie Duff

ConfidenceAchievementSchoolThink

I'm not a goalscorer. It's not my job. Everyone always tells me I've never scored. I don't think I've had a shot.

Ashley Cole

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