Acquired Quote by Tansy Rayner Roberts

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had…

— Joe Perry

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa,…

— Alice Krige

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on.…

— Seamus Heaney

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

— John Madden

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

— Robert Toombs

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The…

— Margaret Geller

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

— Eli Broad

We are pleased to have acquired remake rights of 'Comali' for all languages in the world.

— Boney Kapoor

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as…

— Alan Zweibel