#main

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. ↗

— Larry David

#coming #hear #i #kind #mainstream

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. ↗

— Evan Davis

#although #anything #bbc #because #being

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #bit #centre #country #couple

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well. ↗

— Evan Davis

#benefit #broadcasters #downside #face #interview

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade. ↗

— Evan Davis

#components #consumer #exports #investment #main

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#homemaker #i #interested #just #kind

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#american way #certainly #communist #communist party #disagree

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#also #cutting #cutting edge #edge #hours

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within. ↗

— Jack Dee

#being #confines #disciplined #except #having

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#better #between #cause #economic #economic system