John Bercow Quotes
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.
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You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.
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When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager. She was very gutsy and had a lot of friends, one of whom happened to be the head of jazz at Columbia at the time. That's how it all began.
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If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
