John Bercow Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I have always loathed working out.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
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I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
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As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
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I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.
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I'm not in the business of warning people.
