John Major Quotes
I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
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There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.
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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
