John Major Quotes
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
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Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
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Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
