Alan Bullock Quotes

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Bullock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 13, 1914 - February 2, 2004

Topics

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In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Joe Wurzelbacher

StrangeMeanEveryoneDictionaryDid

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

Melissa McCarthy

MeMakeupThinkTransformJustWigs

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

Michael Feldman

LiveMenSayDeadTellJust

Anytime I don't have to wear a bra is a good day.

Amanda Seales

GoodDayGood DayWearBraAnytime

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Amanda Seyfried

ConfidenceTimeDayPoetryEndYou

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Stephen Wolfram

ScienceProgressMeWorldBuilding

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

Roy Romer

YouKnowManufacturingSoftwareBox

Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.

Masayoshi Son

ResponsibilityEnergyThoughtKind

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

PeopleRealizeExtraordinaryBigHow

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

Jon Jones

StyleManStartThinkYouFast

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Djuna Barnes

MindGalaxyMisinformationPriceless

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

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