Peter Hargreaves Quotes
The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Being evil is easy.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
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I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.
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Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.
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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.
