Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love.
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I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
