John Major Quotes
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
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Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
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I really didn't say everything I said. ... Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.
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Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.
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Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink.
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'There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die' is a motto of the Mahatmas.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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'They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.'
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If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.
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By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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Something I was not aware had happened suddenly turned out not to have happened.
