Mark Walport Quotes
When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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We have to fight sometimes to survive.
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It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
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I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
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Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
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When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
