Neil Kinnock Quotes

The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

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• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

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• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

  Dan Maffei
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• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

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• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
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• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

  

  Pallam Raju
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• Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
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• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
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• We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Future
  • Change
  • Party

• Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Party

• The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • Age
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• The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Party
  • Victory