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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'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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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.
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There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.
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The Times (25 May 1983).
