Iain Duncan Smith Quotes

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

Iain Duncan Smith

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• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
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• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Money
  • Alone

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
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  • Find
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• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
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  • Woman

• 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  

  Pat Metheny
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  • Me
  • Band

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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  • Great
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• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
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• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
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• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Power
  • War

• It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of the mental disorders are initially things that are adaptive. Like even OCD, it's good to sort of have structure and have certain rituals but when it gets to be extreme then it becomes problematic.

  

  H. A. Berlin
  • People
  • Good
  • Structure

• The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.

  

  April Winchell
  • Party
  • Theme
  • Michael Jackson

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Slavery
  • Absence

• I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Film
  • Artists
  • Book of Mormon

• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Work