Mark Walport Quotes

Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods, and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services.

Mark Walport

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IntegrityGovernmentPotentialHelp

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

Jimmy Carr

LovePeopleActionLaughYouWhy

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

Jessye Norman

ResponsibilityWordsMusiciansLevel

I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.

Jenji Kohan

New YorkCityCollegeMeWalking

Peter Lindbergh is the most charming man - I did a Gap commercial for him, and he was just so sweet.

Maye Musk

ManSweetHimCharmingGapJust

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

Michael Hayden

BadSaidMessAboutOftenCould

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Michael Bolton

TimeYourselfHappyDisappointment

'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

Steve Erickson

DreamsYouthDrivingYouCompany

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape.

Stephen Hough

WorkLovePaintingThinkYouI Can

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.

Robert Downey, Jr.

ChangeGenerationPovertyYouKnow

The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we're always protecting other people: 'I can't do this, because it's gonna hurt so-and-so.' We're trying to live the lives of other people, and that's the worst thing you can do.

Rob Halford

LivePeopleHurtTryingYouGay

There's a lot of truth in family relationships.

Ron Cephas Jones

FamilyTruthRelationshipsLot

If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation.

Mary H.K. Choi

FoodBrainPushDieSeeingFirst

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