Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
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My family is more important than my party.
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I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.
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My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.
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People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
