Walter Bagehot Quotes
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
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I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
