Peter Hargreaves Quotes
We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.
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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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'This is our Smeg fridge, the whole house is made of Smeg. We're made of Smeg, aren't we, Roy?' 'Yes, dear.'
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Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
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We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.
