Bob Ainsworth Quotes
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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I'm probably the most negative person around.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
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When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
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Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.
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There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.
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I started my business with my best friend from high school.
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I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
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So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.
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She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.
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As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
