Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I love football, football is my life.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.
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I'm willing to work with anybody that will put the country first.
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
