Chris Patten Quotes
I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.Chris Patten
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
Pankaj Mishra -
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Felicity Huffman -
In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
Rand Paul -
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra -
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
Dani Shapiro -
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye -
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
Iman -
Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
Sammy Sosa -
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor Swift
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
Vanessa Minnillo -
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
Ice T -
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
Aaron Neville -
Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
T. J. Miller -
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'll always be tough on myself.
Kate Bush
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
Madchen Amick -
I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.
Demetri Martin -
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire -
I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
Lou Holtz -
I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
Chris Patten