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Margaret Heffernan Quotes

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

Margaret Heffernan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1955

Topics

Work Mother Day Grateful Work Hard

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Jill Scott

Art Singing Acting Go Whatever Lows

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

Jenni Rivera

Music Problems Think Someone Want

The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

John Delaney

Community Law World Free Envy Rule

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

Max Keiser

I Am Market Am

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John le Carre

Age Myself Maturity Democracy Find

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

Michael Ignatieff

Good Words Evil Care Name Worry

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

Simon Callow

Life Character Kind Understand Him

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.

Mike McCready

Music Dream Selling Strange Old

I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.

Mini Grey

Style Story Think Kind Whatever

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

Louis D. Brandeis

Initiative Never Judgement Substitute

You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.

Don Shula

Best Opportunities You Want Right

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

David Suzuki

Future Today Past Animal Memory Now