Antony Jay famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
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The only real training for leadership is leadership.
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You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
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Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
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In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.
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Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
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There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
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I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
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I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
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Independence didn't have to be exile.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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