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Linda Colley Quotes

One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1949

Topics

Choose Important Something Knows

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

Life Fun Having Fun Care Short You

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Performance Information Down Human

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Believe Enough Movies Hollywood Even

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example, there's no leather; it's free from PVC. There's lots of woven materials, which means a lot less waste.

Stella McCartney

Environmental Free House Way My Own

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Music Heart Beautiful Poetry Unhappy

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

Music American Feel Musicians You

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Miguel Indurain

Broken Win Will More Seen Get

'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Funny Interesting You Never Always

I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.

Chelsea Manning

History Me Prison Credit Fraud Out

It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.

Christophe de Margerie

Change Energy Reality Priorities Aim

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fool Words Thoughts Jealous Care

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish.

Law Slavery Rule Of Law Know Escape

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