John Bercow Quotes
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
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I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
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I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.
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I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
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This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.
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When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
