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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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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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
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Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
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The stock market is a discounter of all known information.
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I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
