Howard Jacobson Quotes

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

Howard Jacobson

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SomeoneCountryWantReturnMust

Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.

Jerry Falwell

SoulWinnersPoliticiansPreachers

Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.

Andrew Yang

OpportunitiesWallStreetWillLike

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Mel Smith

HopeTheatreTelevisionDirectorUp

I love challenges.

Max Baucus

LoveChallengesI Love

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Michael Beschloss

HistoryConstitutionPoliticalYou

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Steven Pinker

LiveDeathPeopleViolenceYouLook

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

Roger Rosenblatt

TruthSadPlaceFocusedFirstMay

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

Michelle Wie

WomenGreatMenI CanPlaySide

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

Mo'Nique

LifeChangeMeControlRealityKnow

I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

David Sze

NetworkingBelieveOpportunitiesWill

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

Christopher Lee

LegendYouDeadOldGotEither

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeThinkProcessYouEarlyOut

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