Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
