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Toby Young Quotes

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1963

Topics

Success Failure Respect People More

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Democracy Wonder He Often Says Bush

Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why places like CNN matter is that it is still important to bring them together, put context around it, and explain it.

Together World Story Important Why

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

Child Own Things Only Like Actions

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Father Beer Church Outside Crab

There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.

Day Effort Every Day One Day Single

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.

Affect Only Criminals Restrictions

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

Miguel de Icaza

People Think Year You Jump Want

I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.

Love Doing Air Big Nike Max

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Jason Robert Brown

Time Think Hide Find Done Living

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Library Tragedy Real Taste Leisure

More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

Life Daily Power Daily Life World

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Me Think Someone Result Done Test

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