Neil Kinnock Quotes
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
Neil Kinnock
Quotes to Explore
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Dana Carvey
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
Pamela Meyer
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
Oliver Tambo
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
M. J. Rose
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
Ada Yonath
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This is what the Republican party stands for, though: racism.
Ed Schultz
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
Lillian Russell
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When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.
Barack Obama
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
Neil Kinnock
