Chris Patten Quotes
Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
