Michael Gove Quotes
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.Michael Gove
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West -
Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
Venus Williams -
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
Barry Eisler -
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
Edgar Wright
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
Laura Fraser -
A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
Barton Gellman -
I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
Ian Botham -
I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.
Joe Murray -
A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.
Charles B. Rangel
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We always say that National songs have to have a heart, that we don't make cold songs.
Bryce Dessner The National -
I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.
Eileen Pollack -
I didn't get good breaks on TV.
Coco Martin -
As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
Martha McSally -
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
David Harsanyi -
I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.
Andrew Lincoln
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The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
Chetan Bhagat -
I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
Victor LaValle -
I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
John McEnroe -
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
Michael Gove