George Osborne Quotes

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

George Osborne

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ChangeMistakesGovernmentLearnYou

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

Jennifer Egan

ThinkGlamourPlayingErrorWriter

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really into the body and how it could go wrong. I wanted to dig up bodies from the graveyard.

Jennifer Egan

DoctorBodyWrongGoKindKid

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

John Kricfalusi

LookBackNobodyAliveTouchWay

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

SuccessHappinessMomentButterfly

When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.

Jean-Marc Vallee

LifeGoodGreatFeelingGoWant

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

Stephen Mangan

FunnyPeopleComedyFindPersonal

Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.

Stevie Nicks

RelationshipHappyThinkFriendsHe

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

Tom Selleck

ActorTryMoreNeverImageAudience

Knowledge is the real power.

Ronnie Coleman

KnowledgePowerRealReal Power

People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

RuPaul

LifeWorkGoodPeopleMeWorld

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Martin Rees

IntellectualLeapGreaterLifetime

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

WorkHard WorkTalentMeCareLook

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