Boris Johnson Quotes
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
