Peter Mandelson Quotes
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.
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I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.
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We need to send a powerful message to the world in a unified voice: that we can fight for social justice for everyone, everywhere, and change the world, not just get married. We can continue to build our communities and address the root causes of queer and trans poverty and deaths.
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What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
