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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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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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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You said I was a warrior. You told me that was my nature, and I shouldn’t argue with it. Father, you were wrong. I fought because I had to. I can’t choose my nature, but I can choose what I do. And I will choose, because now I'm free.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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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.
