John Bercow Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!
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Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
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I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
