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 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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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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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
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To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.
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My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.
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Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
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When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
