#brilliant

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#brooklyn #career #height #his #i

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.' ↗

— Max Hastings

#brilliant #charming #children #clever #knew

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#ancient #brilliant #condemned #dictum #errors

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#film #i #i can #i think #just

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#brilliant #completely #even #everybody #i

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#celebrating #credit #crunch #different #different way

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#been #brilliant #figure #first #four

There are so many brilliant women on television right now. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#many #now #right #television #women

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#inspiring #kofi-annan #inspirational