Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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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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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
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If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
