Chris Patten Quotes
It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.
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Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.
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It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.
