Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you… — Trick Daddy Copy Share Image
The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show. — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and… — Lance Gross Copy Share Image
One of the main things that seemed understandably frustrating about lots of popular narratives was the one-dimensionality of a veteran's story. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
YI teamed up with the Allstate Foundation to basically inform teens why it's important to drive safe. I feel I'm new on… — Austin Mahone Copy Share Image
The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad… — John Cena Copy Share Image
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity… — Rafer Johnson Copy Share Image
Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for… — Jack Carroll Copy Share Image
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select… — Arthur Herzog Copy Share Image
Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and… — William Bell Copy Share Image
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
