"We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity."

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Source : "Alistair Darling: We were two hours from the cashpoints running dry", www.independent.co.uk. March 18, 2011.

Alistair Darling

#Doors Quotes #World Quotes #Electricity Quotes

“Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.”
“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
“It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.”
“No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.”
“Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.”
“The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.”

Source : "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
“Iâ€™ve had a tense couple of days. And Iâ€™ve got to tell you, burning someoneâ€™s face off sounds like a great way to relax.”
“Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.”

Source : Peter Guber (2011). “Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story”, p.8, Crown Business

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