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James Black Quotes

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

James Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: June 14, 1924 - March 22, 2010

Topics

Love Father Music Me Singing Place

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Business Decision Practice Powerful

I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure it should be about that.

Andrew Lawrence

Comedy Go Kind Beyond Stage Sure

I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.

Matthew Moy

Love Culture School High School High

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Alveda King

Life Quality Government Plans Honest

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

Tori Spelling

Time Lose First Big Pregnancy Would

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Roger Bacon

Knowledge Mathematics World Without

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

Janice Dickinson

Life Love Future Live Live Life Me

The great thing about 'Pretty Little Liars' is it shoots in Los Angeles where my home is, so I got to live at home and wake up in my own bed.

Claire Holt

Home Live Great Wake Up Los Angeles

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

Brad Pitt

Respect Day Together People Me Long

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

Bruce McCulloch

Run Class Way Like Olympic Runner

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Armistead Maupin

Good Too Much Wonderful Much Thing

The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

Peter York

Community Money Doing Landscape New