Duke of Wellington Quotes
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
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A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
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Mitt and his ilk are always saying, 'If only we ran the government more like a business.' No! Government is there specifically for the things that are not supposed to run like a business. Government is not supposed to make a profit.
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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
