Bob Ainsworth Quotes
I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
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Oh for a blast of that dread horn on Fontarabian echoes borne!
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For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
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When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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Oddly enough, Black Panther's almost like an analog to Tarzan.
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I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
