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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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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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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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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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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There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant.
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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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.
