Gavyn Davies Quotes

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

Gavyn Davies

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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Joanna Scott

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The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

John Barth

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We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.

John M. McHugh

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To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

John Ratzenberger

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In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.

Shimon Peres

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When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.

Shirley Temple

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Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

Lord Mountbatten

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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

Colin Quinn

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In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

Chuck Norris

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For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

Anthony Bourdain

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Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Les Brown

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