All Quotes

"Pay television needs to be about more than just films and football. The consumer can’t be expected to fund all of Sky’s investments and get less and less choice in return"

"Write a list at the end of your working day of everything you have got to do tomorrow. That way you can kind of leave it at work and pick it up the next day"

"I understand philosophy as the transition from sense to meaning, through cultural and doctrinal mediation, through the structure of pure thought, and through the mediation of practice."

"Philosophy is the hermeneutics of meaning, especially as historical data, so that it becomes significance, that is, decision, through cultural comparison that goes beyond mere memorization, by virtue of evaluation (theoretical moment) and practical-political impact (practical moment). Critical comparison of practical forms, to bring meaning (the data, we might say) to the value of significance."

"When you meet people anywhere in the world, they only know one thing about Rwanda – and that thing is the country’s greatest shame.We started forming the play when we talked about what makes us ashamed of our countries, what shame we carry with us and how people judge us because of certain actions by our countries."

"I don’t know many countries which have experienced genocide and managed to live together and work together and not slaughter each other in revenge."

"You don’t have to be serious to talk about serious things.You could talk about very serious things in a light way. And sometimes (that) highlights the seriousness even better."

"I must say I never thought about it as a child, you know. I was thinking more about becoming a scientist. That was my dream as a child. I wanted to be an astronaut."

"they will be looking to maintain their unbeaten run when the 2019/2020 BK Basketball National League resumes in September."

"I promised 'omituntun', it is time to experience 'omituntun'. I will not rest until good jobs, thriving businesses and quality education are the standard in Oyo State. Together we can do this!"

"Gone are the days when roads are built for show off and political cheap points. All our infrastructural development will be targeted at economic revitalisation."

"I don’t want to be remembered for constructing roads, but for the institutions we have created that will bring good governance."

"Life is a sunny fire, and fire is a real wild beast, which can devour everything in motion. Be prepared, therefore, to face whatever challenges the future places before you."

"God alone is the master planner and His plans never fail"

"“I don’t really understand how anybody cannot be an activist in this time and age. We all have an opportunity to be who we want to be, to encourage our children to be what they want to be, and to provide for them so they can become the people they want to be."

"I’d done a lot of reading, and I felt like the North was the place to be,” she said. “There was nothing to do in my hometown that used what I had. I had no freedom. Back in those days, every job you could get had to be with a Black company because no one else was hiring Black women."

"“Having come from the South, it didn’t bother me, because I wasn’t used to talking to white people, anyway,."

"There were all kinds of organizations in the Black community who were glad to accept me."

"I appeal to the government to put an end to this shooting of protesters by security agents. We need to exercise great patience, restraint and compassion in handling the demands of these youth."

"My words are written with a sense of responsibility for the prosperity and protection of the nation. If some willingly try and misunderstand my words below, so be it, as the matter is too important and above individual vanities."

"Leadership is not a title, a position or an Office but a function."

"The litmus test for our success as Leaders is not how many people we are leading, but how many we are transforming into leaders"

"Your support and commitment make the difference and reinforce our resolve to rid our State of the virus and boost our healthcare status"

"I have seen in the midst of this present crisis the beauty of our shared humanity as people have come together to provide care and succour to fellow human beings, many times at risk to their personal safety and comfort"

"Despite our preparation and readiness to combat and curtail the spread of coronavirus, the best option still remains its prevention"

"time, money and lives” had been saved and would “continue to inform our decisions as we tackle some of the most challenging issues of our day"

"ensuring a fair recovery from the pandemic and a just transition towards achieving our net-zero ambitions"

"AI is a huge opportunity for Scotland and for our businesses"

"Organisations across all sectors – hospitality, engineering, financial services, tourism, healthcare – will all be users and adopters of technology."

"they can improve productivity because they have more automated decision-making. Ultimately, we’re trying to make sure that we drive the economic successes that technology can bring."

"From a societal perspective this will create opportunities and jobs"

"There will be a huge amount of upskilling and reskilling – it’s about providing opportunities to learn and grow and develop in those new skills. It’s really important for us as a nation, for our citizens, for our children, that we get this right."

"Predominantly at the start, there were a lot of organizations that were progressive in their thinking. Scotland has a very significant financial services sector and fintech sector, and those organizations understood that they needed to use data."

"And I think the public awareness of the impact of data has increased significantly across those seven years. We’ve seen throughout that time the expansive use from the tech giants, their use of data in the solutions that they build. And the impact of that has become much more prevalent in society."

"I have no intention of joining 'Coronavirus infected 'APC."

"It is Ekiti first before Nigeria.Every politics is local, every governance starts from the home."

"Everyone should observe a minute of silence for All Progressive Congress.May their soul rest in perfect peace.They've departed out state forever."

"The present and future of Abia depend on the quality of education we provide for our children. We will intentionally prepare our citizens to be skilled participants in the global village, where science, technology, and mathematics are used as productive tools for work and play."

"Things may not go exactly as we wish but even then, we have a responsibility to step out with hope, doing our best each day to pursue the outcomes we seek for ourselves and our loved ones. Hope must override despair and nothing should distract us from giving our all to achieve the goals that we have carefully laid out in the weeks and days leading to this remarkable day. I do not possess the power to predict the future but I know one thing for sure: victory ultimately goes to the one who never gave up."

"We strive valiantly but again and again, we come short, not because we so desire but because it is the nature of human endeavours. Our modest success in the last one year has come from waking up with new enthusiasm each morning, believing that we shall achieve better outcomes in the new day, having learnt from the mistakes of yesterday."

"It’s been a very funny feeling because that’s where it all started for us as a couple."

"When I was offered this play I thought ‘No. Why would I want to do that?’ but my agent talked to me about it and suggested that perhaps this was my career coming full circle."

"So it was still a sentimental thing, but it felt like the right thing to do."

"I was quite well known in the ’60s and ’70s but then you get to that stage when you’re too old to play the maid and too young to play the housekeeper, and you become difficult to cast."

"But then Bad Girls came along and I thought, ‘ooh, I’ve entered the character acting stage’ and what a character it was."

"I’m a gay icon which is something I never thought would come to me."

"This is the first film I ever saw and afterwards I wanted to be Moira Shearer. *I wanted to be a ballet dancer."

"I went to stage school hoping to be a ballet dancer but I turned out to be an actress instead."

"I longed to look like Audrey Hepburn and I thought that it was a really romantic film."

"I’ve never been able to play parts like that because I have always been a character actress with comedy."