Geoff Hoon Quotes
Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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There are two types of warriors: the one that rides through on his horse and tries to slay everyone, and the sniper. I try to be more like the sniper. Bang. Bang. Bang. Break them down, shot by shot.
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I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.
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The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.
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Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.
