BirthdayJonathan Hickman The first comic book I ever read was an issue of ‘Legion of Super-Heroes’ where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party. – Jonathan Hickman Birthday Quotes Book Quotes Chains Quotes Comic Quotes Cover Quotes Earth Quotes Issue Quotes Legion Quotes Party Quotes Read Quotes Remember Quotes Superheroes Quotes Surrounded Quotes I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell – though I don’t think I’ve ever made that abundantly clear to him. I’ve died so many times. I’m 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I’ve died a lot of times!
Alan Pardew I did almost take a job in China because I thought it might be good for me to go abroad and experience what I think the best coaches in the Premier League have had. It helps you learn. You have to evolve. – Alan Pardew
Fisher Ames The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. – Fisher Ames
Amor Towles While I began writing ‘Rules of Civility’ in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of ‘Many Are Called,’ the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera. – Amor Towles
Christina Romer What we’re going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven’s sakes, compensation should be focused on – on long term, so that you don’t have rewards for short-term risk-taking. – Christina Romer
Andrew Mason There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there’s an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant. – Andrew Mason
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