John Grant Quotes
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
Vince Cable -
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
Harold Simmons -
As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
Victoria Pendleton -
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
Beck -
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
B. D. Wong -
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
J. R. Smith -
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
Wayne Dyer -
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
Kate Winslet -
Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
Dan Hill -
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Zoe Tapper
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
Sam Heughan -
I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
Florentijn Hofman -
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
Laura Dern -
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton -
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei -
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
Zaha Hadid
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I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
Alexander Brome -
My mind-set is taking it one day at a time. That's all I can do.
Champ Bailey -
My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.
James Carville -
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?
Sy Montgomery -
I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.
John Grant