Denis Healey Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
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For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.
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The Times (25 May 1983).
