John Major Quotes
In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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The Expanded Learning Time program is a voluntary one - only districts and schools that want to apply are in the program and supported by the state to pursue their plans.
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Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in 'experts'.
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Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
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If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
