Denis Healey Quotes
We are all agreed on a massive extension of public ownership...We are all agreed on establishing comprehensive planning control over the 100 or so largest companies in Britain. We are all agreed on the need for a national enterprise board to organise and extend public ownership in the profitable manufacturing industries.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
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There have indeed been civilizations upon your planet that understood as well as you, and without your
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If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
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We are all agreed on a massive extension of public ownership...We are all agreed on establishing comprehensive planning control over the 100 or so largest companies in Britain. We are all agreed on the need for a national enterprise board to organise and extend public ownership in the profitable manufacturing industries.
