John Bercow Quotes
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.
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I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.
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So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
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And what's great is, you know, while 'Mike and Molly' are working on their health, that's their flaw, the people that surround them are actually- that's the mess. Those two have it together the most.
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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
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I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
