Martin Jacques Quotes

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Martin Jacques

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FatherMotherExperienceParenting

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

FailurePoetryKindMoodImpressUs

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Anatole Broyard

BookReadingTalkingBackMoreLike

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Matthew Gray Gubler

NatureBeginningManDawnEndSince

Fortunately, I have always played younger than what I am.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

I AmAlwaysThanYoungerPlayedAm

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

Anjelica Huston

FatherReligionI AmBelieveThink

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

Andy Hertzfeld

AppleStartedWorkingMonthsAfter

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Jeff Ament

AwayGotEverybodyJamSupposed

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

Jeff Greenfield

LifeKnowledgePowerJobBehavior

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.

Stacey Dash

American DreamAmericanSomeoneDream

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Lloyd Banks

FamilyGrandfatherShameHimAble

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

Jose Andres

LifeGoodAgeExperienceCooking

When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.

Deontay Wilder

PainI AmThinkMercyRingWill

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