Mark Walport Quotes
We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
Quotes to Explore
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I still keep my accent.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.
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Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
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I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.
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When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.
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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
