"I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply."

-- David Plotz

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.178, Pan Macmillan
“There are â€œwell-known secretsâ€ out there and there are people who are â€œso happy they could die.â€ Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, theyâ€™re right. Basically what Iâ€™m saying is, I usually donâ€™t know what people are talking about.”
“There is so much wonderful stuff and so many amazing people in this world.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.”
“I was more worried about what other people would think rather than, you know, me. But you have got to do what is right for yourself and what you feel comfortable with.”
“For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.”
“With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.
“History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.”

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