Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.
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I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
