Penny Junor Quotes
The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.
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Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.
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When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
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As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.
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I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.
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The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
