"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

-- Trevor Nunn

#Views Quotes #Decision Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.”
“When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.”

Source : "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.”
“Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women”
“The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.”
“Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.”
“To grow old is to grow remorseful.”

Source : Randy Cohen (2012). “Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything”, p.10, Chronicle Books
“He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford”

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