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Lawrence Osborne Quotes

My favorite whisky bar in the world is in my adopted Bangkok. A refined and secretive Japanese speakeasy among the girly bars of Soi 33, it's called Hailiang.

Lawrence Osborne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british

Topics

World Bar Japanese Favorite Bangkok

My mother taught us the man was the head of the family, but the woman was the neck, and you could turn him any way you like.

Jerry Hall

Family Mother Woman Man You Way

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

John Chafee

You House Done Need Going Get

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

Anand Mahindra

Leadership Exercise Company Any

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Steve Martin

Funny Chaos Order Midst

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

Good Father Parents Me Play Old

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy More Box Than Ballot

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational Walls Universe Doors

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

Humor Perspective Important Everyday

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

Armando Iannucci

Work Character Words Lunch Dinner

My choices were never wrong.

Anthony Anderson

Choices Wrong Never Were

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

Peter Mandelson

Europe Reinvent Idea

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

Sheryl Sandberg

Work Success Women Daughter Simple