Denis Healey Quotes
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.
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It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.
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First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
