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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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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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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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
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The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.
