Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
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In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
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The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves right under the very fangs of the monster.
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In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
