Alan Bennett Quotes

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

Alan Bennett

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StyleEndFeelingLateFindNow

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

John Eccles

MyselfMedicalBrainStudentStudy

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

John Mayer

WordsMeTalkingMagicYouPerson

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Angelina Jolie

HeartPeopleYouDoneAskAlways

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

Tom Douglas

MomCraveSloppy

What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic.

Tom Frieden

SickStrategyRiskFluContactLike

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

FatherHomeChildrenDayOnlySix

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

Miguel Cabrera

DayYouEvery DayGotEveryTakes

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

Michelle Wie

ChanceYouOpponentGiveMakeYour

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

Milos Zeman

NameEnemyCivilizationTerrorism

I say that building peace is like building a cathedral. You have to have a solid base, and then you do it brick by brick. But the process is irreversible. There's no way back.

Juan Manuel Santos

PeaceBuildingProcessYouBrick

It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.

Diana Gabaldon

PeopleMeResearchBookYouLook

God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I'm like the Dos Equis guy. I don't normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big.

Deadmau5

LoveMusicGodGoNewKid

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